These benchmarks help measure progress toward goals for reducing solar electricity costs and guide SETO research and development programs. Read more to find out how these cost benchmarks are modeled and download the data and cost modeling program below.
Utility-scale PV systems in the 2024 ATB represent 100-MW DC (74.6-MW AC) one-axis tracking systems with performance and pricing characteristics in line with bifacial modules and a DC-to-AC ratio, or inverter loading ratio (ILR), of 1.34 for the Base Year and future years (Ramasamy et al., 2023).
Utility-scale (27%) and distributed (22%) solar accounted for a combined 49% of all capacity added to U.S. grids in 2022 (ahead of wind's 22%). Solar has contributed >40% of all new capacity for the past 2 years, >30% in 6 of the last 7 years, and >20% in each of the last 10 years.
Utility-scale PV is well-represented throughout the nation, with the exception of upper-Midwestern states in the “wind belt”. Large solar projects (>100 MW) are now being built in northern MISO, while Texas solar increasingly expands beyond the panhandle.
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