Solar panel price vs Fossil CO2 emissions
In 2023, solar panel price worldwide was 0.18 million USD per MW; fossil CO2 emissions was 38,094 million tonnes.
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Global, annual figures, spaced by time from 2015 to 2023 . Different units, drawn on separate scales and clipped to the years both series publish; earlier history stays on each indicator’s own page. Read the values, not the heights.
Solar panel price
Unit: million USD per MW · 2 observations
Fossil CO2 emissions
Unit: million tonnes · 9 observations
Estimates are listed as such in the table below
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| Period | Type | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Estimate | 35,403.5 million tonnes |
| 2016 | Estimate | 35,392.8 million tonnes |
| 2017 | Estimate | 35,974.6 million tonnes |
| 2018 | Estimate | 36,734 million tonnes |
| 2019 | Estimate | 37,086.6 million tonnes |
| 2020 | Estimate | 35,158.2 million tonnes |
| 2021 | Estimate | 36,866.9 million tonnes |
| 2022 | Estimate | 37,527.8 million tonnes |
| 2023 | Estimate | 38,094 million tonnes |
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| Period | Solar panel price | Fossil CO2 emissions |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 0.74 million USD per MW IEA | 35,403.5 million tonnes GCP |
| 2023 | 0.18 million USD per MW IEA | 38,094 million tonnes GCP |
Provenance
Where these numbers come from
Solar panel price
The average price of solar panels per unit of capacity.
2 observations charted in Global · source organisations: IEA
Fossil CO2 emissions
Annual carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion and industrial processes (such as cement manufacture).
9 observations charted in Global (of 35 annual records) · source organisations: GCP
Data published under CC BY 4.0. Series A as JSON · Series B as JSON
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