What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?

Nemet, Gregory F.; O'Shaughnessy, Eric; Wiser, Ryan; Darghouth, Naim R.; Barbose, Galen; Gillingham, Ken; Rai, Varun

doi:10.1016/j.renene.2017.08.018

Title: What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?

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Nemet, Gregory F. ^[1]; O'Shaughnessy, Eric ^[2]; Wiser, Ryan ^[3]; Darghouth, Naim R. ^[3]; Barbose, Galen ^[3]; Gillingham, Ken ^[4]; Rai, Varun ^[5]

Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (United States). La Follette School of Public Affairs; Mercator Research Inst. on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Berlin (Germany)
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (United States). Nelson Inst. for Environmental Studies
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Univ. of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX (United States). LBJ School of Public Affairs

Publication Date:: Wed Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office

OSTI Identifier:: 1390041

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1472030; OSTI ID: 1549852

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA-6A20-69041
Journal ID: ISSN 0960-1481

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308; AC02-05CH11231

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Renewable Energy

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 114; Journal Issue: B; Journal ID: ISSN 0960-1481

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 14 SOLAR ENERGY; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; subsidies; solar; PV; price dispersion; technological change

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                    Nemet, Gregory F., O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Wiser, Ryan, Darghouth, Naim R., Barbose, Galen, Gillingham, Ken, and Rai, Varun. What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Nemet, Gregory F., O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Wiser, Ryan, Darghouth, Naim R., Barbose, Galen, Gillingham, Ken, & Rai, Varun. What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.08.018

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                    Nemet, Gregory F., O'Shaughnessy, Eric, Wiser, Ryan, Darghouth, Naim R., Barbose, Galen, Gillingham, Ken, and Rai, Varun. Wed .  
"What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.08.018.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1390041.

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  title        = {What factors affect the prices of low-priced U.S. solar PV systems?},

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