Trends in Costs and Capacity of Low-Carbon Energy Technologies in the United States

• Date: 01 January 2024

1-2024 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER 54 ELR 10003

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Trends in Costs and Capacity of

Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

in the United States

Figure 1.2. Costs of ons hore wind (a), solar photovol taics (b), and electric ve hicle (EV) batter ies (c) have decreased sha rply since 2000 (data s hown here start in

2010), as the cumulative cap acities of wind and so lar generation (d and e) and t he cumulative numbe r of EVs sold (f) have increas ed. Figure credit: El ectric Power

Research Inst itute, National Re newable Energy Labo ratory, NOAA NCEI , and CISESS NC.

Source: F N  C A , Ch 1., Overview, Fig. 1.2 (U.S. Global Change Research Progra m 2023),

https://doi.org/10.7930/NCA5.2023.CH1.

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