Historical residential PV installed cost
$6.41per watt AC / median source-reported cost per watt across matched residential photovoltaic interconnection applications
Includes: Host-owned applications report total system cost; third-party-owned applications report ITC cost basis.
Excludes: Current bids, incentives, tax credits, financing terms, and any work not represented in the source application.
Median of 28 valid source Cost/Watt values. Applicant-reported values are not independently verified and may mix total system cost with ITC cost basis.
California Distributed Generation Statistics source