Learning rates for energy technologies

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Technological change in economic models of environmental policy: a survey (2002, positive): “A recent overview of experience accumulation and cost reduction for a number of energy technologies is given by McDonald and Schrattenholzer (2001).”
Technical Change Theory and Learning Curves: Patterns of Progress in Electricity Generation Technologies (2007, background): “Since 1990s, the pressing need for economic and policy analysis of energy technologies has been an important source of interest in application of learning curves to this area (Papineau, 2006; McDonald and Schrattenholzer, 2001; Criqui et al., 2000; IEA, 2000).”
How predictable is technological progress (2015, neutral): “The database has been constructed from personal communications and from Colpier & Cornland (2002), Goldemberg et al. (2004), Lieberman (1984), Lipman & Sperling (1999), Zhao (1999), McDonald & Schrattenholzer (2001), Neij et al. (2003), Moore (2006), Nemet (2006), Schilling & Esmundo (2009).”
Learning curve analysis of concentrated photovoltaic systems (2015, methodology): “We can investigate the relationship between CPV deployment volume and system price using a learning curve analysis (also known as experience curve analysis), which has been used to model prices of many technologically intensive products including automobiles, aircraft, military equipment [35] and en”