U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark: Q1 2018

Ran Fu; Robert Margolis; David Feldman

doi:10.2172/1483475

U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark: Q1 2018

Ran Fu
, Robert Margolis
, David Feldman

Strategic Energy Analysis Center

Research output: NLR › Technical Report

Abstract

NREL has been modeling U.S. photovoltaic (PV) system costs since 2009. This report benchmarks costs of U.S. solar PV for residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems built in the first quarter of 2018 (Q1 2018). Our methodology includes bottom-up accounting for all system and project-development costs incurred when installing residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems, and it models the capital costs for such systems.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	63
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1483475
State	Published - 2018

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NREL/TP-6A20-72399

Keywords

cost model
photovoltaic
PV
solar

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