Price of a solar module, in constant 2025 dollars per watt, on a log scale, with the long-run trend projected ten years forward.
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Cost per MWh of electricity from a newly built US plant over its lifetime (unsubsidized LCOE, Lazard), with IRENA's worldwide solar average for comparison. Log scale.
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Cost per MWh of building new US solar, compared with the cost of only running a gas or coal plant that is already built and paid off (fuel and operations, Lazard midpoints).
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Average lithium-ion battery pack price in constant 2025 dollars per kWh (BloombergNEF survey), as a stand-in for the cost of making solar available at night. Log scale, with the recent trend projected.