Solar container scale 2016

While focused on key developments in 2016, this report explores trends in deployment and project design, installed project prices, operating costs, capacity factors, and power purchase agreement (PPA) prices among both utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar . Solar deployment trends (and utility-scale’s relative contribution) Future outlook Continued strong growth in c-Si capacity (77%) relative to thin-film capacity (23%). Largest c-Si manufacturers are Trina (22%), and Jinko (14%), Canadian Solar (14%) and SunPower (8%), while the thin-film market is. We are pleased to announce the release of Berkeley Lab’s Utility-Scale Solar 2016, which presents analysis of empirical project-level data from the U. 5 times as much new capacity as did the residential and commercial sectors combined, and is expected to maintain its dominant. The latest report by NREL shows an ongoing decline in costs across sectors, with soft costs remaining stubbornly high for residential installations.