Tracking the Sun
Berkeley Lab's Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing installed prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report, the 11th edition in the series, focuses on systems installed through year-end 2017, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2018. As in years past, the primary emphasis is on describing changes in installed prices over time and variation in pricing across projects based on location, project ownership, system design, and other attributes. New to this year, however, is an expanded discussion of other project characteristics in the large underlying data sample. Future editions will include more of such material, beyond the reports traditional focus on installed pricing. The trends described in this report derive primarily from project-level data reported to state agencies and utilities that administer PV incentive programs, solar renewable energy credit (SREC) registration systems, or interconnection processes. In total, data were collected and cleaned for more than 1.3 million individual PV systems, representing 81% of U.S. residential and non-residential PV systems installed through 2017. The analysis of installed pricing trends is based on a subset of roughly 770,000 systems with available installed price data.
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AB - Berkeley Lab's Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing installed prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report, the 11th edition in the series, focuses on systems installed through year-end 2017, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2018. As in years past, the primary emphasis is on describing changes in installed prices over time and variation in pricing across projects based on location, project ownership, system design, and other attributes. New to this year, however, is an expanded discussion of other project characteristics in the large underlying data sample. Future editions will include more of such material, beyond the reports traditional focus on installed pricing. The trends described in this report derive primarily from project-level data reported to state agencies and utilities that administer PV incentive programs, solar renewable energy credit (SREC) registration systems, or interconnection processes. In total, data were collected and cleaned for more than 1.3 million individual PV systems, representing 81% of U.S. residential and non-residential PV systems installed through 2017. The analysis of installed pricing trends is based on a subset of roughly 770,000 systems with available installed price data.
AU - Barbose, Galen
A2 - Darghouth, Naim
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Renewable Energy Laboratory
DO -
KW - energy
KW - power
KW - solar
KW - pv installations
KW - grid
KW - oedi
KW - photovoltaic
KW - PV
KW - tracking the sun
KW - installed price
KW - residential
KW - non-residential
LA - English
DA - 2019/10/01
PY - 2019
PB - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
T1 - Tracking the Sun
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/3
ER -
Barbose, Galen, and Naim Darghouth. Tracking the Sun. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), 1 October, 2019, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/3.
Barbose, G., & Darghouth, N. (2019). Tracking the Sun. [Data set]. Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). https://data.openei.org/submissions/3
Barbose, Galen and Naim Darghouth. Tracking the Sun. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), October, 1, 2019. Distributed by Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI). https://data.openei.org/submissions/3
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_3,
title = {Tracking the Sun},
author = {Barbose, Galen and Darghouth, Naim},
abstractNote = {Berkeley Lab's Tracking the Sun report series is dedicated to summarizing installed prices and other trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. The present report, the 11th edition in the series, focuses on systems installed through year-end 2017, with preliminary trends for the first half of 2018. As in years past, the primary emphasis is on describing changes in installed prices over time and variation in pricing across projects based on location, project ownership, system design, and other attributes. New to this year, however, is an expanded discussion of other project characteristics in the large underlying data sample. Future editions will include more of such material, beyond the reports traditional focus on installed pricing. The trends described in this report derive primarily from project-level data reported to state agencies and utilities that administer PV incentive programs, solar renewable energy credit (SREC) registration systems, or interconnection processes. In total, data were collected and cleaned for more than 1.3 million individual PV systems, representing 81% of U.S. residential and non-residential PV systems installed through 2017. The analysis of installed pricing trends is based on a subset of roughly 770,000 systems with available installed price data.},
url = {https://data.openei.org/submissions/3},
year = {2019},
howpublished = {Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), https://data.openei.org/submissions/3},
note = {Accessed: 2025-04-24}
}
Details
Data from Oct 1, 2019
Last updated Jun 18, 2024
Submitted Apr 2, 2020
Organization
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
Contact
Galen Barbose
510.495.2593
