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Finally in Sight, $1-A-Watt Solar Milestone Shows Long Road Ahead

Written by: Richard Martin
Narrated by: Elizabeth Wells
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This week energy forecaster GTM Research predicted that the price of building big solar-power farms will drop below $1 a watt by 2020. That’s a big deal because it’s seen as the threshold below which building solar power arrays becomes competitive, without subsidies, with the cost of fossil-fuel plants. It’s also the target set in 2011 by the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative. But there are important caveats.

"Finally in Sight, $1-A-Watt Solar Milestone Shows Long Road Ahead" is from technologyreview.com, published on June 3, 2016.

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