U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System and Energy Storage Cost Benchmarks: Q1 2021

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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). The methodology includes bottom-up accounting for all system and project-development costs incurred when installing residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems and it models the capital costs and levelized cost of energy for such systems.

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33 https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80694.pdf
5 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). The methodology includes bottom-up accounting for all system and project-development costs incurred when installing residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems and it models the capital costs and levelized cost of energy for such systems. https://data.nrel.gov/system/files/179/Data%20File%20%28U.S.%20Solar%20Photovoltaic%20%20BESS%20System%20Cost%20Benchmark%20Q1%202021%20Report%29.xlsx

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  • pv
  • solar
  • battery-energy-storage
  • residential-solar
  • cost-analysis
  • utility-scale-solar
  • bottom-up-cost-model
  • commercial
  • capital-cost

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