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It would help if you continue the very sentence:

After decades of global competition and collaboration, many solar markets around the world have reached grid parity—the point at which generating solar electricity, without subsidies, costs less than the electricity purchased from the grid.

No?



Fair enough. The way it's worded really seems to target the public sector though. Maybe I'm just way out of touch, but has the cost of PV really come down far enough that it's cheaper for the average homeowner to generate solar power than to buy power from the grid? And in which countries is that true? Or, is this statement targeted at large-scall installations only (power plants, warehouses, etc)?


Yeah, I don't know about that. I assume it's the large-scale pricing myself..




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