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Title: Tracking the Sun VIII. The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States

Abstract

Now in its eighth 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 nonresidential systems installed through year-end 2014, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2015. As noted in the text box below, this year’s report incorporates a number of important changes and enhancements. Among those changes, this year's report focuses solely on residential and nonresidential PV systems; data on utility-scale PV are reported in LBNL’s companion Utility-Scale Solar report series. 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. In total, data were collected for roughly 400,000 individual PV systems, representing 81% of all U.S. residential and non-residential PV capacity installed through 2014 and 62% of capacity installed in 2014, though a smaller subset of this data were used in analysis.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [2];  [3]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Exeter Associates, Columbia, MD (United States)
  3. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
1237054
Report Number(s):
LBNL-188238
ir:188238
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY

Citation Formats

Barbose, Galen L., Darghouth, Naïm R., Millstein, Dev, Spears, Mike, Wiser, Ryan H., Buckley, Michael, Widiss, Rebecca, and Grue, Nick. Tracking the Sun VIII. The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1237054.
Barbose, Galen L., Darghouth, Naïm R., Millstein, Dev, Spears, Mike, Wiser, Ryan H., Buckley, Michael, Widiss, Rebecca, & Grue, Nick. Tracking the Sun VIII. The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1237054
Barbose, Galen L., Darghouth, Naïm R., Millstein, Dev, Spears, Mike, Wiser, Ryan H., Buckley, Michael, Widiss, Rebecca, and Grue, Nick. 2015. "Tracking the Sun VIII. The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1237054. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1237054.
@article{osti_1237054,
title = {Tracking the Sun VIII. The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States},
author = {Barbose, Galen L. and Darghouth, Naïm R. and Millstein, Dev and Spears, Mike and Wiser, Ryan H. and Buckley, Michael and Widiss, Rebecca and Grue, Nick},
abstractNote = {Now in its eighth 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 nonresidential systems installed through year-end 2014, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2015. As noted in the text box below, this year’s report incorporates a number of important changes and enhancements. Among those changes, this year's report focuses solely on residential and nonresidential PV systems; data on utility-scale PV are reported in LBNL’s companion Utility-Scale Solar report series. 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. In total, data were collected for roughly 400,000 individual PV systems, representing 81% of all U.S. residential and non-residential PV capacity installed through 2014 and 62% of capacity installed in 2014, though a smaller subset of this data were used in analysis.},
doi = {10.2172/1237054},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1237054}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}