Summer 2023 Solar Industry Update
Agenda
1 Global Solar Deployment
2 U.S. Policy Updates
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U.S. PV Deployment
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PV Pricing
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5 Global Manufacturing
6 U.S. PV Imports
7 Virtual Power Plants
At the end of 2022, more than 263,000 U.S. employees
spent most of their time on solar. An additional 82,250
workers spent less than half their time on solar-related
work.
The United States installed 5.7 GWac (6.1 GWdc) of PV in Q1
2023-and the largest Q1 on record; a significant portion
was in Texas, Florida, and California.
• 34% of U.S. utility-scale PV and ~21% of all U.S. PV systems
built in 2022 used CdTe panels.
The United States installed ~2.1 GWh (0.8 GW ac) of energy
storage onto the electric grid in Q1 2023.
89% of GWh of utility-scale battery storage installed in
2021 was co-located with an electric generation asset (or
retired plant), however in 2022 that number dropped to
59%.
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