I read somewhere a while ago that solar capacity has doubled every two years for 30 years, but stupidly, I didn't keep the link, and I haven't been able to find it again. But I stumbled across a different site which showed a slightly lower growth since 1975, namely 30% per year. To double every 2 years the growth rate would have to be 41% per year. So, in the early years, when solar was so expensive, obviously growth was lower, because we know that since 1990 it
has doubled every 2 years. Currently solar provides about 1.2% of global electricity, which means it is just 6 doublings (or 12 years) away from providing 80% of all electricity.
It's a nice chart, but it would be better on a log scale, which works much better for exponential growth, or exponential decline (in module price) for that matter.
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