Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks
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The U.S. Department of Energy?s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel spreadsheet model that can be downloaded here.
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AB - The U.S. Department of Energy’s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel spreadsheet model that can be downloaded here.
AU - Basore
A2 - Dummit
A3 - Thomas
A4 - Taylor
A5 - Benoliel
A6 - Feldman
A7 - Narayanaswami
A8 - Ramasamy
A9 - Woodhouse
A10 - Zuboy
A11 - Braid
A12 - Jost
A13 - Sproul
DB - Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)
DP - Open EI | National Laboratory of the Rockies
DO -
KW - pv system cost
KW - pv module cost
KW - battery system cost
KW - pv cost 2025
KW - battery cost 2025
LA - English
DA - 2025/12/22
PY - 2025
PB - National Laboratory of the Rockies
T1 - Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks
UR - https://data.openei.org/submissions/8599
ER -
Basore, et al. Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks. National Laboratory of the Rockies, 22 December, 2025, NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304.
Basore, Dummit, Thomas, Taylor, Benoliel, Feldman, Narayanaswami, Ramasamy, Woodhouse, Zuboy, Braid, Jost, & Sproul. (2025). Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks. [Data set]. NREL. National Laboratory of the Rockies. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304
Basore, Dummit, Thomas, Taylor, Benoliel, Feldman, Narayanaswami, Ramasamy, Woodhouse, Zuboy, Braid, Jost, and Sproul. Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks. National Laboratory of the Rockies, December, 22, 2025. Distributed by NREL. https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304
@misc{OEDI_Dataset_8599,
title = {Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks},
author = {Basore and Dummit and Thomas and Taylor and Benoliel and Feldman and Narayanaswami and Ramasamy and Woodhouse and Zuboy and Braid and Jost and Sproul},
abstractNote = {The U.S. Department of Energy?s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel spreadsheet model that can be downloaded here.},
url = {https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {NREL, National Laboratory of the Rockies, https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304},
note = {Accessed: 2026-03-21}
}
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Data from Dec 22, 2025
Last updated Mar 12, 2026
Submitted Dec 22, 2025
Organization
National Laboratory of the Rockies
Contact
Vignesh Ramasamy
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https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304Research Areas
DOE Project Details
Project Name Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark
Project Number CPS Agreement #52999
