Full Title: Tracking the Sun VII, An Historical Summary of the Installed Price of Photovoltaics in the United States from 1998 to 2013
Author(s): Galen Barbose, Samantha Weaver, and Naïm Darghouth
Publisher(s): University of California, Berkeley and United States Department of Energy
Publication Date: September 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
As the deployment of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has increased, so too has the desire to track the cost and price of these systems. This report helps to fill this need by summarizing trends in the installed price of grid-connected PV systems in the United States from 1998 through 2013, with partial data for the first half of 2014. The analysis is based on project-level data for more than 300,000 individual residential, commercial, and utility-scale PV systems installed across 33 states and representing 80% of all grid-connected PV capacity installed in the United States through 2013.