A REVIEW OF PRICES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS

Solar energy is the most abundant, useful, efficient and environmental friendly source among the renewable energy sources. Also, in recent years, the capacity of photovoltaic electricity generation systems has increased exponentially in the world due to increase in economic viability and reliability of photovoltaic systems. Anyway, many studies state that photovoltaic power systems will play a key role for electricity of the future. When first produced, photovoltaic systems had short lifetimes. Nowadays, with the development of technology life cycles of photovoltaic systems has been increased up to 20-25 years. Researches show that photovoltaic systems will be broadly used in the future. These analyses are achieved by considering fast decreasing cost of photovoltaic systems. As the price analysis is very important for energy marketing. In this study, a review of cost potential factors on photovoltaic panels is realized and the expected cost potential of the photovoltaic systems is examined considering lots of studies.