Graph of levelized cost of energy (starting with LCOE 14.0, October 2020) for various energy sources as a function of year, derived from LCOE data from Lazard
Source for Version 4 (includes data through 2022): 2023 Levelized Cost Of Energy+ 9. Lazard (12 April 2023). Archived from the original on 27 August 2023. (Download link labeled "Lazard's LCOE+ (April 2023) (1) PDF—1MB")Source states: "...significant historical cost declines for utility-scale renewable energy generation technologies driven by, among other factors, decreasing capital costs, improving technologies and increased competition".
Source states: "The LCOE no longer analyzes solar thermal costs", explaining why the "Solar towers" trace stops in 2019.
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Source for Version 1: Chrobak, Ula (author); Chodosh, Sara (infographic)  (28 January 2021). "Solar power got cheap. So why aren’t we using it more?". Popular Science. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021. ● Chodosh's graphic is derived from data in Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Version 14.0. Lazard.com. Lazard (19 October 2020). Archived from the original on 28 January 2021.
Suggested caption:With increasingly widespread implementation of renewable energy sources, costs have declined, most notably for energy generated by solar panels.[cite]
Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is a measure of the average net present cost of electricity generation for a generating plant over its lifetime.Version 1 was created with Inkscape.
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