U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018
NREL has been modeling U.S. photovoltaic PV system costs since 2009. The U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System CostBenchmark Q1 2018 report benchmarks costs of U.S. solar PV for residential commercial and utility-scale systems built in the first quarter of 2018 Q1 2018. 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 for such systems.
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AB - NREL has been modeling U.S. photovoltaic PV system costs since 2009. The U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System CostBenchmark Q1 2018 report benchmarks costs of U.S. solar PV for residential commercial and utility-scale systems built in the first quarter of 2018 Q1 2018. 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 for such systems.
AU - Fu, Ran
A2 - Feldman, David
A3 - Margolis, Robert
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - PV photovoltaic solar energy
KW - LCOE
KW - capital cost
KW - 2018
LA - English
DA - 2019/03/15
PY - 2019
PB - National Renewable Energy Laboratory
T1 - U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8186
ER -
Fu, Ran, et al. U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15 March, 2019, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103.
Fu, R., Feldman, D., & Margolis, R. (2019). U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018. [Data set]. NREL. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103
Fu, Ran, David Feldman, and Robert Margolis. U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, March, 15, 2019. Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8186,
title = {U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark Q1 2018},
author = {Fu, Ran and Feldman, David and Margolis, Robert},
abstractNote = {NREL has been modeling U.S. photovoltaic PV system costs since 2009. The U.S. Solar Photovoltaic System CostBenchmark Q1 2018 report benchmarks costs of U.S. solar PV for residential commercial and utility-scale systems built in the first quarter of 2018 Q1 2018. 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 for such systems.},
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103},
year = {2019},
howpublished = {NREL, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103},
note = {Accessed: 2026-08-18}
}
Details
Data from Mar 15, 2019
Last updated Mar 12, 2026
Submitted Mar 15, 2019
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Contact
Ran Fu
Authors
Original Source
https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/103Research Areas
Keywords
PV photovoltaic solar energy, LCOE, capital cost, 2018DOE Project Details
Project Name Solar Photovoltaic Cost Benchmarking
Project Number FY19 AOP 5.2.0.3
