Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks
The industry survey seeks to understand the cost structure for each stakeholder, including how their costs are affected by scale, overhead,
The industry survey seeks to understand the cost structure for each stakeholder, including how their costs are affected by scale, overhead,
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The benchmarks are bottom-up cost estimates of all major inputs to typical PV and energy storage system configurations and installation practices. Bottom-up costs are based on national averages and do not necessarily represent typical costs in all local markets.
Figure 9. Q1 2022 U.S. benchmark: 7.9-kWdc residential PV system cost (2021 USD/Wdc) This section describes our commercial PV model’s structure and parameters in intrinsic units (Section 6.1) as well as its output (Section 6.2).
Feldman, David, Galen Barbose, Robert Margolis, Mark Bolinger, Donald Chung, Ran Fu, Joachim Seel, Carolyn Davidson, Naïm Darghouth, and Ryan Wiser. 2015. Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections: 2015 Edition.
The current MSP benchmarks for PV systems in 2022 real USD are $28.78/kWdc/yr (residential), $39.83/kWdc/yr (community solar), and $16.12/kWdc/yr (utility-scale, single-axis tracking). For MMP, the current benchmarks are $30.36/kWdc/yr (residential), $40.51/kWdc/yr (community solar), and $16.58/kWdc/yr (utility-scale, single-axis tracking).