Month: November 2018
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News coverage for PV module cost paper
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Paper on the reasons for solar energy’s cost decline in Vox: ‘What made solar panels so cheap? Thank government policy’ – 11/20/2018
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News coverage (2) for PV module cost paper
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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
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Energy Policy paper on PV module costs
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New paper in Energy Policy: Evaluating the causes of cost reduction in photovoltaic modules – 11/20/2018
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Sustainability grant
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New grant from MIT’s Office of Sustainability to design and study on-campus renewable energy storage systems – 11/2/2018
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Determinants of technology improvement
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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.