The Biden administration announced Thursday an effort to slash the cost of solar energy by 60% within the next decade, a feat officials said was essential to achieving the president’s goal of 100% clean energy by
The solar goal, being implemented by the Energy Department, calls for reducing utility-scale solar energy’s current cost of 4.6 cents per kilowatt-hour to 3 cents by 2025 and 2 cents by 2030.
“In many parts of the country, solar is already cheaper than coal and other fossil fuels, and with more innovation we can cut the cost again by more than half within the decade,” Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm said in a statement.
To help achieve the new goal, the department announced $128 million in new funding aimed at lowering the power source’s cost, improving its performance, and speeding its deployment. Most of the money will go to research on thin-film solar and concentrating solar-thermal technologies.
Source: Bloomberg