Solar Power Price Drop

Analysts predict that prices could fall below 0 20 per watt by 2040.

Solar power price drop.

Here are tesla s new prices for the bigger solar rooftop panel systems. The cost has generally been following swanson s law which states that the price of solar drops by 20 for every doubling of shipped product. The source of energy enters a new era solar has seen a dramatic drop in price. Back in 1977 the price of solar photovoltaic cells was 77 for just one watt of power.

He predicts that the price of constructing solar power technology will decrease by 4 4 percent each year meaning that by 2022 the price of projects will have dropped by 27 percent. In an article for bloomberg news noah smith highlights a study by mit researchers that examines the factors influencing the decline in solar prices. This represents a massive 9x drop in the price of solar panels since 2006. The researchers found that from 1980 to 2001 government funded research and development was the main factor in bringing down costs but from 2001 to 2012 the biggest factor was economies of.