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#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap

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Are We at the End of the Learning Curve?

Today, 2022 solar is more expensive than it was last year. That's the first time that's happened in about 15 years. The learning curve apparently had stopped and solar prices weren't up for a few years in 2006, 2007. And I think that's probably what's going to happen now with some of these input materials like poly silicon that have gotten expensive. But we're still on the old generation technology. We're still sliced silicon wafers that we've been doing for like 40 years now.

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