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

    Metadata Updated: January 22, 2025

    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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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 22, 2025

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    Metadata Created Date January 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 22, 2025
    Publisher National Renewable Energy Laboratory
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    Data First Published 2021-11-08T21:15:29Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-01-21T22:17:15Z
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    Projecttitle System-Level Capital Costs Modeling and Technology Tracking
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