Paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline in Vox: ‘What made solar panels so cheap? Thank government policy’ – 11/20/2018
Monthly Archives: November 2018
News coverage (2) for PV module cost paper
Paper on solar’s cost decline in Greentech Media, The New York Times, Ars Technica, Financial Times, MIT News – 12/14/2018, 11/28/2018, 11/26/2018, 11/24/2018, 11/20/2018
Energy Policy paper on PV module costs
New paper in Energy Policy: Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules - 11/20/2018
Sustainability grant
New grant from MIT’s Office of Sustainability to design and study on-campus renewable energy storage systems – 11/2/2018
Determinants of technology improvement
Technologies change over time at different rates. Here we study the factors that drive technology evolution, and we ask why some technologies improve more quickly than others. Continue reading