The benchmarks are bottom-up cost estimates of all major inputs to typical PV and energy storage system configurations and installation practices. Bottom-up costs are based on national averages and do not necessarily represent typical costs in all local markets.
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.
Our operations and maintenance (O&M) analysis breaks costs into various categories and provides total annualized O&M costs. The MSP results for PV systems (in units of 2022 real USD/kWdc/yr) are $28.78 (residential), $39.83 (community solar), and $16.12 (utility-scale).
We model a 500-kWdc fixed-tilt, ground-mounted commercial PV system coupled to a 300-kWdc storage system, with 4 hours (1,200 kWh) of storage, using the same PV parameters we use with our standalone PV system and the same storage parameters we use with our standalone storage system, except for the effects of on-site coupling listed in Table 10.
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