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Germany gets roughly as much sunlight as Canada, and started installing solar when costs were 5-10x what they are today. They paved the way for future installations at lower costs,…

UBS has done some modeling on this for their clients. They believe utility-based solar will take a hit for a 2-3 years and then rebound. The Fed ITC will drop from 30% to 10%. Maki…

The graph doesn't have an 2015 data on it, but the average in 2015 has dropped further. I initially set out to model soft costs on their own, separate from module costs. However, t…

It's difficult to say. Solar thermal is not dropping in cost the way that solar PV is. For now, at low penetrations, solar PV is a far better bet. But solar thermal has the advanta…

Two things have happened in this area recently. 1. The grams of rare earths required per watt of solar have been dropping steadily. And Solar PV panels with no rare earths at all h…

Hi. I'm the author of this blog post. Happy to answer questions people have, as time allows, on Wednesday. Upcoming posts will look at the future of wind power, the future of energ…

Hi. I'm the author of the original post. The amount of solar installed in the world is going to scale by more than 10x in the coming decades. There will be more than a trillion spe…