LEARNING CURVE CALCULATOR
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Cumulativeproduction
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Averagemodule price
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Computation time 0.078 s.
This calculator evaluates the expansion of the photovoltaic (PV) industry in terms of the cumulative production and price of PV modules. It can be used to determine the 'learning rate' of the PV industry and to predict module prices in the future.
Module prices are adjusted for inflation using a yearly average index derived from the US inflation calculator. Exchange rates are a yearly average rate derived from FXTop.
A learning curve should, in theory, be derived from the cost of manufacture. Due to a lack of data on manufacturing costs, here it is defined in terms of an average sales price (ASP) by the equation ASP = a∙CPᵇ, where CP is the cumulative production. The learning rate is then calculated as R = exp[b∙ln(2)]. Read more about the learning curve here.
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