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Wikipedia May 13, 2026 at 10:42 AM

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-carbon_economy

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Global solar module prices fell 35 percent to less than 9 cents/kWh.
Correction

The unit is wrong. Solar module prices are quoted in cents per watt of panel capacity, not cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity.

Full reasoning

This sentence confuses the unit used for solar module hardware prices with the unit used for electricity prices.

Official sources track solar module prices in price per watt (for example, dollars or cents per watt of direct-current module capacity), not per kilowatt-hour. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Quarterly Solar Industry Update says module prices in Q3 2024 stayed near record lows at around $0.10 per watt (Wdc). S&P Global’s solar module price assessments likewise state that module prices are published in cents per watt.

So the article’s claim that module prices fell to "less than 9 cents/kWh" uses the wrong unit. A price per kWh would describe electricity output, not the purchase price of a solar module.

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Model: OPENAI_GPT_5 Prompt: v1.16.0