Featured in Technology Highlights 2017 – 04-2017

Kink or fluctuation?

Price development: Anyone interested in an answer to the question of how sustainable the drastic price drop for solar modules is would likely have a look at price-learning curve figures. Although it also tracks technological progress, its forecasting value is limited.

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Michael Fuhs

13 Apr 2017

A falling apple inspired Newton to develop the formula that describes bodies in motion. More broadly, it was the experience that if a hundred apples fall straight down, the hundred and first will do the same. The power of empiricism can similarly be ascribed to the price-learning curve.Experts assume that price development in the past …

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