{"id":416650,"date":"2021-05-24T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T04:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=416650"},"modified":"2021-05-24T11:27:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:57:26","slug":"solar-powers-decade-of-falling-costs-is-thrown-into-reverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/solar-powers-decade-of-falling-costs-is-thrown-into-reverse\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar power&#8217;s decade of falling costs is thrown into reverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A key selling point that made solar energy the fastest-growing power source in the world\u2014rapidly decreasing costs\u2014has hit a speed bump.<\/p>\n<p>Solar module prices have risen 18% since the start of the year after falling by 90% over the previous decade. The reversal, fueled by a quadrupling in the cost of the key raw material polysilicon, threatens to delay projects and slow uptake of solar power just as several major governments are finally throwing their weight behind it in an effort to slow climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe disruption to solar hasn\u2019t been this bad in more than a decade,\u201d said Jenny Chase, lead solar analyst with clean energy research group BloombergNEF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key selling point that made solar energy the fastest-growing power source in the world\u2014rapidly decreasing costs\u2014has hit a speed bump. Solar module prices have risen 18% since the start of the year after falling by 90% over the previous decade. The reversal, fueled by a quadrupling in the cost of the key raw material polysilicon, threatens to delay projects and slow uptake of solar power just as several major governments are finally throwing their weight behind it in an effort to slow climate change. \u201cThe disruption to solar hasn\u2019t been this bad in more than a decade,\u201d said Jenny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}