Naim Darghouth

Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections

LBNL-XXXX E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY Photovoltaic (PV) Pricing Trends: Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections David Feldman 1 , Galen Barbose 2 , Robert Margolis 1 , Ryan Wiser 2 , Naim Darghouth 2 , and Alan Goodrich 1 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory November 2012 NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC. Contract No. DE-AC36- 08GO28308 LBNL’s work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot program under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 Technical Report DOE/GO-102012-3839 • November 2012 National Renewable Energy Laboratory 15013 Denver West Parkway Golden, CO 80401 303-275-3000 • www.nrel.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1 Cyclotron Road Berkeley, CA 94720 510-486-4000 • www.lbl.gov

Photovoltaic System Pricing Trends. Historical, Recent, and Near-Term Projections, 2015 Edition

This presentation, based on research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, provides a high-level overview of historical, recent, and projected near-term PV pricing trends in the United States focusing on the installed price of PV systems. It also attempts to provide clarity surrounding the wide variety of potentially conflicting data available about PV system prices. This PowerPoint is the third edition from this series.

Tracking the Sun VIII The Installed Price of Residential and Non-Residential Photovoltaic Systems in the United States

Author(s): Barbose, Galen; Darghouth, Naim; Millstein, Dev; Cates, Sarah; DiSanti, Nicholas; Widiss, Rebecca | Abstract: Berkeley Lab’s Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing trends in the installed price of grid-connected, residential and non-residential systems solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report, the ninth edition in the series, focuses on systems installed through year-end 2015, with preliminary data for the first half of 2016. The report provides an overview of both long-term and more-recent trends, highlighting key drivers for installed price declines over different time horizons. The report also extensively characterizes the widespread variability in system pricing, comparing installed prices across states, market segments, installers, and various system and technology characteristics. The trends described in this report derive from project-level data collected by state agencies and utilities that administer PV incentive programs, solar renewable energy credit (SREC) registration systems, or interconnection processes. In total, data for this report were compiled and cleaned for more than 820,000 individual PV systems, though the analysis in the report is based on a subset of that sample, consisting of roughly 450,000 systems with available installed price data. For the first time, the full underlying dataset of project-level data (excluding any confidential information) is available in a public data file, for use by other researchers and analysts.

Deconstructing Solar Photovoltaic Pricing: The Role of Market Structure, Technology, and Policy

Author(s): Gillingham, Kenneth; Deng, Hao; Wiser, Ryan; Darghouth, Naim; Nemet, Gregory; Barbose, Galen; Rai, Varun; Dong, C.G.

Tracking the Sun II: The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008

Tracking the Sun II The Installed Cost of Photovoltaics in the U.S. from 1998-2008 Ryan Wiser Galen Barbose Carla Peterman Naim Darghouth October 2009 TITLE PAGE – use last years

Tracking the Sun VIII

Funded by the SunShot Initiative, this report summarizes trends in the installed price of grid-connected residential and non-residential PV systems in the United States.

Financial impacts of net-metered PV on utilities and ratepayers: A scoping study of two prototypical U.S. utilities

Author(s): Satchwell, Andrew; Mills, Andrew; Barbose, Galen; Wiser, Ryan; Cappers, Peter; Darghouth, Naim

Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1. Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures

The Renewable Electricity Futures (RE Futures) Study investigated the challenges and impacts of achieving very high renewable electricity generation levels in the contiguous United States by 2050. The analysis focused on the sufficiency of the geographically diverse U.S. renewable resources to meet electricity demand over future decades, the hourly operational characteristics of the U.S. grid with high levels of variable wind and solar generation, and the potential implications of deploying high levels of renewables in the future. RE Futures focused on technical aspects of high penetration of renewable electricity; it did not focus on how to achieve such a future through policy or other measures. Given the inherent uncertainties involved with analyzing alternative long-term energy futures as well as the multiple pathways that might be taken to achieve higher levels of renewable electricity supply, RE Futures explored a range of scenarios to investigate and compare the impacts of renewable electricity penetration levels (30%-90%), future technology performance improvements, potential constraints to renewable electricity development, and future electricity demand growth assumptions. RE Futures was led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Exploring Demand Charge Savings from Residential Solar

Author(s): Darghouth, Naim; Barbose, Galen; Mills, Andrew; Wiser, Ryan; Gagnon, Pieter; Bird, Lori

Behind the PV price declines

SOLAR ENERGY prices saw double-digit declines in 2013, with PV pricing expected to drop another 3 – 12 per cent when this years totals are tallied. The experts at LBNL and NREL explain whats driving the trend.