{"schemaVersion":"report-figure-v1","report":{"slug":"global-residential-electricity-prices","title":"Global Residential Electricity Prices: The Demand Side of Solar Economics","url":"https://solaranalytica.com/global-residential-electricity-prices","datePublished":"2026-06-09","lastReviewed":"2026-09-17"},"figure":{"id":"yield-against-price","title":"Modelled yield against 2025 residential retail price, seven markets","unit":"kWh per kWp per year; US$ per kWh","valueLabel":"Yield kWh/kWp/yr","valueBLabel":"Price USD/kWh","provenance":{"dataSource":"Modelled TOPCon specific yield (NASA MERRA-2 1994-2024 and CERES EBAF); 2025 retail prices per the sources listed","dataType":"Modelled yield; observed price","scope":"The seven markets tabulated in this report","statistic":"Yield and price per market; value is their product"},"caption":"Where price meets sunlight: the seven markets in the table below, yield against price. Each curve joins the points that earn the same per kilowatt-peak per year, because value is the product of the two axes: arithmetic, not a correlation, and it implies nothing about cause. Cairo out-yields Berlin by two-thirds and returns one-eleventh of it, because its price is nineteen times lower.","series":[{"label":"Los Angeles","value":1800,"valueB":0.303},{"label":"Madrid","value":1619,"valueB":0.297},{"label":"Berlin","value":1058,"valueB":0.436},{"label":"Athens","value":1656,"valueB":0.261},{"label":"Santiago","value":1746,"valueB":0.228},{"label":"Perth","value":1791,"valueB":0.21},{"label":"Cairo","value":1769,"valueB":0.023}]},"csv":"https://solaranalytica.com/reports/global-residential-electricity-prices/figures/yield-against-price/data.csv","publicationState":"fixed-edition","boundary":"The figure remains bound to the report edition. A newer upstream release creates a review obligation and never rewrites these rows automatically."}