Browse by topic:
- cost trends,
- CSP,
- emissions reductions,
- federal incentives,
- financial incentives,
- installers and training,
- interconnection standards,
- marketing,
- multi-family housing,
- municipal solar programs,
- net metering,
- pv cost trends,
- PV incentives,
- pv markets,
- pv output,
- PV Peer Network,
- pv performance,
- PV technology,
- RPS,
- solar footprint,
- solar glossary,
- solar hot water,
- solar hot water technologies,
- solar incentives,
- solar lease programs,
- solar RECs,
- solar set-asides,
- solar tax credits,
- solar thermal incentives,
- state energy legislation,
- state programs,
- state solar spotlight,
- state support for renewables,
- technical report,
- utility programs for solar,
PV Peer Network Webinar – PV Cost Trends
| November 12, 2009 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:30 pm |
Clean Energy Group and Clean Energy States Alliance will host a PV Webinar on LBNL’s recent report, “Tracking the Sun II – The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008.” Galen Barbose of LBNL, one of the report’s principal authors, will brief attendees on the key findings from the report.
The LBNL report provides a comprehensive summary of installed cost trends for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States from 1998 through 2008, updating an earlier report that contained data through 2007. The updated report is based on project-level data from more than 52,000 residential and non-residential PV systems, totaling 566 MW of capacity and representing 71% of all grid-connected PV capacity installed in the U.S. through 2008. These data were provided by 27 PV incentive programs spanning 16 states.
The report finds that average installed costs have declined over time, from $10.8/W in 1998 to $7.5/W in 2008 (in real 2008 dollars per installed watt DC). Importantly, average costs declined by approximately $0.3/W from 2007 to 2008, following several preceding years (2005-2007) when they remained essentially flat. The cost reductions from 2007 to 2008 were associated with a decline in module costs, in contrast to earlier years when cost reductions were associated primarily with a decline in non-module costs.
The report also finds evidence of sizable economies of scale among the PV systems in our sample, significant variation in average installed cost among states, and cost advantages for PV installed in residential new construction relative to the retrofit market. The report also describes trends in financial incentive levels over time, by customer type and among states, and the associated impact of these trends on the net installed cost of PV for residential and commercial PV system owners after receipt of incentives.
The report can be downloaded here: http://eetd.lbl.gov/ea/emp/re-pubs.html.
If you would like to register for this November 12thwebinar, please send an email to maria@cleanegroup.org with “PV Cost Trends Webinar” in the subject line and include your contact information; the call in information will be provided at that time.