Abstract
The President's Solar America Initiative (SAI) was launched in January 2006 as part of the administration's Advanced Energy Initiative. The SAI is being led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP), with NREL providing analytical and technical support. The SAI has a goal of installing 5-10 GW of photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States by 2015 and70-100 GW of PV systems in the United States by 2030. To make PV cost-competitive with other energy resources, this requires that the installed cost of PV fall from approximately $8/Wdc in 2005 to $3.3/Wdc in 2015 and $2.5/Wdc in 2030. This report presents estimates of the potential energy, economic, and environmental benefits that could result should the SAI PV installation goals be achieved.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 58 |
State | Published - 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Work performed by ECONorthwest, Portland, OregonNREL Publication Number
- NREL/SR-640-41998
Keywords
- advanced energy initiative
- economic benefits
- energy benefits
- environmental benefits
- photovoltaics (PV)
- PV
- SAI
- Solar America Initiative
- solar energy technology program