Prices have dropped more than 60 percent in the past several years with the average upfront cost for the commonly used 6 kw system landing between 16 200 21 420.
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The average cost of installed residential solar power systems is currently 2 55 per watt.
Generally solar systems become cheaper per watt as you make them bigger and increase their capacity.
The price of solar power panels for utility scale projects fell below 2 per watt in 2013 and have continued to drop in 2014 to about 1 80 per watt 59 percent below 2010 prices according to.
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With the average system size tallying in at 6 kilowatts this means.
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Photovoltaic prices have fallen from 76 67 per watt in 1977 to nearly 0 102 per watt in october 2019 for multi crystalline silicon solar cells and module price to 0 21 per watt.
Trends have continued until recently with a report from the nrel that showed the price per watt of solar energy dropped by 27 in the first quarter of 2017 alone.
Module and cell prices declined even further after 2014 see price quotes in table.
Residential solar prices more specifically starting with residential solar pv systems the average total installed cost of a rooftop solar pv system in the 3rd quarter of 2014 was down to 3 60 watt 14 cents per watt lower than in the 2nd quarter and 23 cents per watt lower than in the 1st quarter.
89 90 this is seen as evidence supporting swanson s law which states that solar cell prices fall 20 for every doubling of cumulative shipments.
This price trend was seen as evidence supporting swanson s law an observation similar to the famous moore s law that states that the per watt cost of solar cells and panels fall by 20 percent for every doubling of cumulative photovoltaic production.
A typical 6kw system costs 11 330 after claiming the 26 solar tax credit.
Here are tesla s new prices for the bigger solar rooftop panel systems.