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Does a globalized solar photovoltaic module supply chain save money?

Modelling shows that a globalized solar photovoltaic module supply chain has resulted in photovoltaic installation cost savings of billions of dollars.

Why did PV module prices fall in 2022?

After several years of tension on material and transport costs, module prices plummeted in a massively over-supplied market, maintaining the competitivity of PV even as electricity prices decreased after historical peaks in 2022. Major trends include:

What is solar photovoltaics and why is it important?

Solar photovoltaics is one of the most cost-effective technologies for electricity generation and therefore its use is growing across the globe. Global solar photovoltaic capacity has grown from around five gigawatts in 2005 to approximately 1.6 terawatts in 2023. Only in that last year, installations increased by almost 40 percent.

How did China develop a competitive solar PV industry?

The free flow of capital (for example, foreign finance-backed start-ups), talent (for example, international collaborations with Chinese researchers) and innovations (for example, technologies pioneered in labs overseas and licensed and mass-produced in China) were essential to the rise of China’s competitive solar PV industry 14.

How do we provide a global inventory of PV installations?

Here we provide a global inventory of commercial-, industrial- and utility-scale PV installations (that is, PV generating stations in excess of 10 kilowatts nameplate capacity) by using a longitudinal corpus of remote sensing imagery, machine learning and a large cloud computation infrastructure.

Is renewable power a viable source of least-cost new power generation?

Renewable power generation has become the default source of least-cost new power generation. The progress made in 2023 is a significant step toward transitioning to a system based on energy efficiency and renewable technologies.