Berkeley Lab’s annual Tracking the Sun report describes trends among grid-connected, distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) and paired PV+storage systems in the United States. For the purpose of this report, distributed solar includes residential systems, roof-mounted non-residential systems, and ground-mounted systems up to 5 MW-AC. Ground-mounted systems larger than 5 MW-AC are covered in Berkeley Lab’s companion annual report, Utility-Scale Solar.
The latest edition of the report is based on 3.2 million systems installed through year-end 2022, representing more than 80% of systems installed to date. The report describes and discusses key trends related to:
The report also includes a multi-variate regression analysis to estimate the effects of key pricing drivers for residential systems installed in 2022.
}, year = {2023}, month = {09/2023}, note = {The report, published in slide-deck format, is accompanied by a narrative executive summary, interactive data visualizations, a public data file, and summary data tables. All items can also be found at: http://trackingthesun.lbl.gov.
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A brief overview of this study can be found here. A webinar discussing this study was recorded on October 4, 2023, and can be viewed here.
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