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    • Q1-2025 Solar Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmarks

    Metadata Updated: March 21, 2026

    The U.S. Department of Energy’s solar office and its national laboratory partners analyze cost data for U.S. solar photovoltaic systems to develop cost benchmarks to measure progress toward goals and guide research and development programs. The cost data is available in an Excel spreadsheet model that can be downloaded here.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date December 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026

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    Harvested from OpenEI data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 22, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date March 21, 2026
    Publisher National Laboratory of the Rockies
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8599
    Data First Published 2025-12-22T16:35:21Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-12T18:10:31Z
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 019:20
    Metadata Context https://openei.org/data.json
    Metadata Catalog ID https://openei.org/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id 3ea7c2fc-02cc-438a-9708-d9b309261560
    Harvest Source Id 7cbf9085-0290-4e9f-bec1-91653baeddfd
    Harvest Source Title OpenEI data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.nlr.gov/submissions/304
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Program Code 019:008
    Projectnumber CPS Agreement #52999
    Projecttitle Photovoltaic System Cost Benchmark
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1d91f704154952e036037a5cd5a8191eeb6622a3774c3b8ffae374169f870977
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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