![Photos show a solar installation from 1988 (left) and a present-day version. Though the basic underlying technology is the same, a variety of factors have contributed to a hundredfold decline in costs. Now, researchers have identified the relative importance of these different factors.](https://idss.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/MIT-Solar-Pricing_0.jpg)
Explaining the plummeting cost of solar power
MIT News Office | November 20, 2018
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