Tracking the Sun: Pricing and Design Trends for Distributed Photovoltaic Systems in the United States - 2019 Edition

Technical Report · Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1574343· OSTI ID:1574343

Barbose, Galen ^[1]; Darghouth, Naim ^[1]; Elmallah, Salma ^[1]; Forrester, Sydney ^[1]; LaCommare, Kristina S. H. ^[1]; Millstein, Dev ^[1]; Rand, Joseph ^[1]; Cotton, Will ^[2]; Sherwood, Stacy ^[2]; O'Shaughnessy, Eric ^[3]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
2. Exeter Associates, Columbia, MD (United States)
3. Clean Kilowatts, LLC (United States)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)’s annual Tracking the Sun report summarizes installed prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. This edition focuses on systems installed through year-end 2018, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2019. As in years past, the primary emphasis is on describing changes in installed prices over time and variation across projects. This year’s report also includes an expanded discussion of other key technology and market trends, along with several other new features, as noted in the text box below.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-05CH11231
• OSTI ID: 1574343
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English