{"id": 997973, "name": "Solar photovoltaic module price", "unit": "constant 2023 US$ per watt", "createdAt": "2024-11-15T08:53:33.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-03-14T15:15:20.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1975-2023", "datasetId": 6800, "shortUnit": "$/W", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "cost", "catalogPath": "grapher/energy/2024-11-15/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity/photovoltaic_cost_and_capacity#cost", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "1927516878971931003", "metadataChecksum": "605080175381263653", "datasetName": "Solar photovoltaic cost and capacity", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2024-11-15", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Photovoltaics", "unit": "constant 2023 US$ per watt", "shortUnit": "$/W"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"titlePublic": "Solar photovoltaic module price", "topicTagsLinks": ["Energy"]}, "descriptionKey": ["IRENA presents solar photovoltaic module prices for a number of different technologies. Here we use the average yearly price for technologies 'Thin film a-Si/u-Si or Global Price Index (from Q4 2013)'."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1975}, {"id": 1976}, {"id": 1977}, {"id": 1978}, {"id": 1979}, {"id": 1980}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1982}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 1984}, {"id": 1985}, {"id": 1986}, {"id": 1987}, {"id": 1988}, {"id": 1989}, {"id": 1990}, {"id": 1991}, {"id": 1992}, {"id": 1993}, {"id": 1994}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1996}, {"id": 1997}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1999}, {"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 1985, "title": "Renewable Power Generation Costs", "producer": "IRENA", "citationFull": "IRENA - Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2023. International Renewable Energy Agency, Abu Dhabi (2024).", "attributionShort": "IRENA", "urlMain": "https://www.irena.org/Publications/2024/Sep/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2023", "urlDownload": "https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2024/Sep/IRENA-Datafile-RenPwrGenCosts-in-2023-v1.xlsx", "dateAccessed": "2024-11-15", "datePublished": "2024-09-01", "license": {"url": "https://www.irena.org/Publications/2024/Sep/Renewable-Power-Generation-Costs-in-2023", "name": "\u00a9IRENA 2024"}}, {"id": 320, "title": "Interim monitoring of cost dynamics for publicly supported energy technologies", "producer": "Nemet", "citationFull": "Interim monitoring of cost dynamics for publicly supported energy technologies, Energy Policy 37(3): 825-835, by Nemet, G. F. (2009), obtained via [the Performance Curve Database](http://pcdb.santafe.edu).", "attributionShort": "Nemet", "urlMain": "https://pcdb.santafe.edu/graph.php?curve=158", "urlDownload": "https://pcdb.santafe.edu/process_download.php?curve=158&typ=csv", "dateAccessed": "2023-12-12", "datePublished": "2009-03-01", "license": {"url": "https://pcdb.santafe.edu/graph.php?curve=158", "name": "CC BY 3.0 DEED"}}, {"id": 284, "title": "How predictable is technological progress?", "producer": "Farmer and Lafond", "citationFull": "How predictable is technological progress? J. D. Farmer & F. Lafond, Research Policy Volume 45, Issue 3, April 2016, Pages 647-665.\n\nThe data are mostly taken from the [Santa-Fe Performance Curve DataBase](https://pcdb.santafe.edu/). The database has been constructed from personal communications and from [Colpier and Cornland (2002)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0095), [Goldemberg et al. (2004)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0130), [Lieberman (1984)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0180), [Lipman and Sperling (1999)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0190), [Zhao (1999)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0310), [McDonald and Schrattenholzer (2001)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0205), [Neij et al. (2003)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0235), [Moore (2006)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0215), [Nemet (2006)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0240), [Schilling and Esmundo (2009)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0265). The data on photovoltaic prices has been collected from public releases of Strategies Unlimited, Navigant and SPV Market Research. The data on nuclear energy is from [Koomey and Hultman (2007)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0165) and [Cooper (2009)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0100). The DNA sequencing data is from [Wetterstrand (2015)](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699#bib0290) (cost per human-size genome), and for each year the last available month (September for 2001-2002 and October afterwards) was taken and corrected for inflation using the US GDP deflator.", "attributionShort": "Farmer and Lafond", "urlMain": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699", "dateAccessed": "2023-12-12", "datePublished": "2016-04-01", "license": {"url": "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001699", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}