Description
Berkeley Labs "Utility-Scale Solar", 2021 Edition presents analysis of empirical plant-level data from the U.S. fleet of ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV), PV+battery, and concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants with capacities exceeding 5 MWAC. While focused on key developments in 2020, this report explores trends in deployment, technology, capital and operating costs, capacity factors, the levelized cost of solar energy (LCOE), power purchase agreement (PPA) prices, wholesale market value, and interconnection queue data.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Utility-Scale Solar Data Update.xlsm | XLS | Workbook summarizing all data used in the briefing and its graphs, as well as additional data assets (e.g. solar project costs by state, cost statistics in $/W-DC, etc.) | Open resource |
| Project Page with More Information | HTML | The project page includes a technical brief, a power point presentation, webinar recordings and interactive data visualizations. | Open resource |
Tags
- 2021
- analysis
- battery
- berkeley-lab
- capacity
- capacity-factor
- capacity-factors
- capital-costs
- concentrating-solar-thermal-power
- costs
- csp
- data
- energy
- generation
- ground-mounted
- hourly
- hourly-generation
- interconnection
- interconnection-queue
- lcoe
- market
- market-analysis
- market-value
- operating-cost
- operating-costs
- photovoltaic
- plant-level
- power
- power-purchase-agreement
- power-purchase-agreements
- ppa
- pv
- pv-battery
- solar
- solar-power
- utility-scale
- utility-scale-solar
- wholesale-market-value