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U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks: Q1 2021
NREL has been modeling U.S. solar photovoltaic (PV) system costs since 2009. This year, our report benchmarks costs of U.S. PV for residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems, with and without storage, built in the first quarter of 2021 (Q1 2021)…
PV
solar
battery energy storage
capital cost
bottom-up cost model
cost analysis
utility-scale solar
commercial
Residential Solar
Q1 2023 U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks With Minimum Sustainable Price Analysis Data File
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) aims to accelerate the advancement and deployment of solar technology in support of an equitable transition to a decarbonized economy no later than 2050, starting with a…
solar cost
pv cost
battery system cost
solar plus storage cost
2023 solar cost
2023 battery cost
Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections 2015 Edition
This is the fourth edition in an annual briefing prepared jointly by LBNL and NREL intended to provide a high-level overview of historical, recent, and projected near-term PV system pricing trends in the United States. The briefing draws on several…
PV
photovoltaic
solar energy
system cost
system price
renewable energy
RE
2016 Annual Technology Baseline
Current and future cost and performance data for electricity generating technologies, including both renewable and conventional technologies.
wind
PV
photovoltaic
concentrating solar power
LCOE
geothermal
hydropower
CAPEX
overnight capital cost
cost and performance
projection
RE
US
renewable energy
NREL U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2016 Report
Excel data file for the U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2016 Report
bottom-up cost model
capital cost
photovoltaic
renewable energy
RE
US
solar
PV
2017 Annual Technology Baseline (ATB): Cost and Performance Data for Electricity Generation Technologies
Each year since 2015, NREL has presented Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) in a spreadsheet that contains detailed cost and performance data (both current and projected) for renewable and conventional technologies. The spreadsheet includes a workbook for…
wind
PV
photovoltaic
concentrating solar power
LCOE
geothermal
hydropower
CAPEX
overnight capital cost
cost and performance
projection
RE
US
renewable energy
NREL U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2017 Report
Excel data file for the U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2017 Report
solar
LCOE
cost analysis
SunShot
bottom-up cost model
capital cost
photovoltaic
renewable energy
RE
US
PV
Rooftop Photovoltaic Technical Potential in the United States
This data submission contains a workbook with data, and three sets of shapefiles that correspond to that data.
Contact: Meghan Mooney, Meghan.Mooney@nrel.gov
The workbook contains data that underlies the 2016 technical report Rooftop Solar…
rooftop
photovoltaic
PV
technical potential
Solar Futures Study Databook
The Solar Futures Study explores pathways for solar energy to drive deep decarbonization of the U.S. electric grid and considers how further electrification could decarbonize the broader energy system.
This workbook contains data behind most figures…
solar
rooftop solar
utility-scale solar
concentrating solar power
photovoltaics
energy analysis
Solar Futures Study
Manufacturing Thermal Energy Use in 2014
The first data set estimates thermal energy use (i.e., fuels combusted for process heating, boilers, and combined heat and power/cogeneration) by end use, temperature, county, and facility employment size class for all U.S. manufacturing industries in…
manufacturing
boilers
process heat
temperature
thermal energy
CHP
cogeneration