Op de website Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com) staat onderstaande grafiek van dalende kosten voor zonenergie. Volgens Bloomberg zijn de kosten van maart 2011 tot maart 2012 met 45% afgenomen. Zonne-energie kan al rond 2014 concurrerend zijn voor fossiele brandstof. Dat is mooi nieuws!
The first, above, is on the solar ‘learning curve’ or how much solar prices have dropped with increasing installations. Here’s what Bloomberg had to say about this:
Solar power has reached a long-sought industry goal: silicon modules at a cost of one dollar per Watt of capacity. This chart shows the industry’s learning curve. For conventional panels, the price drops 24 percent for every doubling of total installation. For thin-film panels, made by First Solar, the cost falls 13 percent when capacity doubles.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s solar module price index stands at $1.03 per watt, a 45 percent price drop since March 2011, but up from the end of December 2011. Global manufacturing capacity is far ahead of demand — the reason why Solyndra went bust. The average stock price drop among top solar module makers was 65.6 percent in the last year.
Michiel Verbeek, 24 januari 2012
