Between 2022 and 2023, utility-scale solar PV projects showed the most significant decrease (by 12%). For newly commissioned onshore wind projects, the global weighted average LCOE fell by 3% year-on-year; whilst for offshore wind, the cost of electricity of new projects decreased by 7% compared to 2022.
The global weighted average levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) for solar PV fell by 2% year-on year from 2022 to 2023, and 90% overall between 2010 and 2023, and 90% overall between 2010 and 2023,4 while battery storage project costs declined 89% between 2010 and 2023, from USD 2 511/kilowatt hour (kWh) to USD 273/kWh.5
Solar PV and battery systems are highly competitive on an LCOE basis at utility-scale (21–165 €/MWh el) with overall market costs of electricity depending on local costs, and at residential scale (40–204 €/MWh el) depending on consumer costs of electricity including taxes, transmission costs, and distribution costs.
The global weighted average cost of newly commissioned solar photovoltaic (PV), onshore and offshore wind power projects fell in 2021. This was despite rising materials and equipment costs, given that there is a significant lag in the pass through to total installed costs.
The lifetime cost per kWh of new solar and wind capacity added in Europe in 2021 will average at least four to six times less than the marginal generating costs of fossil fuels in 2022. Globally, new renewable capacity added in 2021 could reduce electricity generation costs in 2022 by at least USD 55 billion.
The cost of PV electricity is currently at about 149 ₤/MWh for the smallest-scale and 51 ₤/MWh for large-scale PV systems, already lower than the wholesale price of electricity, with PV systems predicted to get cheaper by 40%–50% until 2035.
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