Tracking the Sun IX: The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Energy Technologies Area
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Exeter Associates, Columbia, MD (United States)
Now in its ninth edition, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)’s Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing trends in the installed price of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report focuses on residential and non-residential systems installed through year-end 2015, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2016. An accompanying LBNL report, Utility-Scale Solar, addresses trends in the utility-scale sector. This year’s report incorporates a number of important changes and enhancements from prior editions. Among those changes, LBNL has made available a public data file containing all non-confidential project-level data underlying the analysis in this report. Installed pricing trends presented within this report derive primarily from project-level data reported to state agencies and utilities that administer PV incentive programs, solar renewable energy credit (SREC) registration systems, or interconnection processes. Refer to the text box to the right for several key notes about these data. In total, data were collected and cleaned for more than 820,000 individual PV systems, representing 85% of U.S. residential and non-residential PV systems installed cumulatively through 2015 and 82% of systems installed in 2015. The analysis in this report is based on a subset of this sample, consisting of roughly 450,000 systems with available installed price data.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
- Contributing Organization:
- Exeter Associates, Columbia, MD (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1345194
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-1006036; ir:1006036
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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