Friday, November 30, 2012

Solar panels are getting cheaper — time to make the rest of solar power cheap, too

Grist: The installed cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) power continues its precipitous decline, mostly due to falling prices for PV panels. Pushing solar forward in coming years will involve driving down the other costs - the non-panel costs. Those are a couple of the insights to be found in the fifth annual report on solar PV [PDF] from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), which digs into "project-level data for more than 150,000 individual residential, commercial, and utility-scale PV systems,...

URL: http://grist.org/climate-energy/solar-panels-are-getting-cheaper-time-to-make-the-rest-of-solar-power-cheap-too/
Enclosure: http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/solar-panel-in-shopping-cart.jpg?w=250&h=166

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