Overcoming barriers to renewable energy diffusion: business models for customer-sited solar photovoltaics in Japan, Germany and the United States

Strupeit, Lars; Palm, Alvar

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.06.120

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“…Rising climate change risks and global sustainability challenges along with the significant decreases in costs of renewables have led to recognition of solar electricity systems as major parts of mitigation strategies [5]. Providing end users with a self-managed, usable energy source with minimal operation and maintenance costs, rooftop PV is distinct among low-carbon technologies [9]. Here, an exhaustive rooftop PV potential assessment in an urban area has been conducted to fill a gap in the available public information about the potential of such systems.…”

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“…Onsite rooftop PV energy micro-generation could decrease the electricity distribution and transmission costs and losses [8]. The lack of investors' and home-owners' awareness about rooftop PV potential, and the detailed information deficit regarding rooftop spaces suitable for PV installation are important barriers that have impeded the diffusion of rooftop PV systems [5,9]. Significant research on city-wide distributed renewable energy generators is required to attain a sustainable urban energy mix [7].…”

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Evaluating solar energy technical and economic potential on rooftops in an urban setting: the city of Lethbridge, Canada

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Byrne

Johnson

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Int J Energy Environ Eng

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Solar energy deployment is gaining greater attention as a sustainable source of energy that could alleviate aspects of the current climate crisis. Knowledge of the characteristics and economics of the solar electricity sector is required to integrate it in the energy generation and utilization mix. Unlike energy generation from fossil fuels, renewable energy sources have relatively low geographic density and are spread unevenly over large areas. Therefore, especially in cities, where space has greater value and opportunity costs, finding suitable spaces for implementing solar systems are essential to promote the use of solar technologies. Using remote-sensing data, the intricate topography of cities can be modelled, and insolation incident at each location can be estimated. A multi-criteria approach based on geographic information systems (GIS) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is used in this research to estimate rooftop photovoltaic electricity potential of buildings in an urban environment, the city of Lethbridge. An economic assessment is conducted utilizing present market prices to determine economically attractive rooftop PV systems. The total rooftop photovoltaic (PV) electricity potential is evaluated and compared with the local electricity demand. Effective expansion of solar power systems in the city is achieved by determining the geographic distribution of the best locations for exploiting the systems. This study estimates that the rooftop PV electricity generation potential of the city of Lethbridge is approximately 301 ± 29 (SD) GWh annually (almost 38% of its annual electricity consumption in 2016), and about 96% of the recognized potential rooftop PV systems are economically feasible. The results can assist in making informed policy decisions about investment in deployment of renewable energy generation.

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Evaluating solar energy technical and economic potential on rooftops in an urban setting: the city of Lethbridge, Canada

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Johnson

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Int J Energy Environ Eng

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“…This creates a win-win situation with customer electricity bill [27] and utility's technical burden reduction [28].…”

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Review of distributed generation (DG) system planning and optimisation techniques: Comparison of numerical and mathematical modelling methods

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Pankow 2014) . 2016, Strupeit/Palm 2016 . 2014), wie es in der EEG-Novelle 2016 vorgesehen ist (BMWi 2016: 10 f . )…”

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Weltweite Verteilungskämpfe um knappe Energieressourcen und der Klimawandel mit seinen Auswirkungen führen zu globalen, nationalen, regionalen und auch lokalen Herausforderungen, die Gegenstand dieser Publikationsreihe sind. Die Beiträge der Reihe sollen Chancen und Hemmnisse einer präventiv orientierten Energie-und Klimapolitik vor dem Hintergrund komplexer energiepolitischer und wirtschaftlicher Interessenlagen und Machtverhältnisse ausloten. Themenschwerpunkte sind die Analyse der europäischen und internationalen Liberalisierung der Energiesektoren und -branchen, die internationale Politik zum Schutz des Klimas, Anpassungsmaßnahmen an den Klimawandel in den Entwicklungs-, Schwellenund Industrieländern, die Produktion von biogenen Treibstoffen zur Substitution fossiler Energieträger oder die Probleme der Atomenergie und deren nuklearen Hinterlassenschaften.Die Reihe bietet empirisch angeleiteten, quantitativen und international vergleichenden Arbeiten, Untersuchungen von grenzüberschreitenden Transformationsund Mehrebenenprozessen oder von nationalen "best practice"-Beispielen ebenso ein Forum wie theoriegeleiteten, qualitativen Untersuchungen, die sich mit den grundlegenden Fragen des gesellschaftlichen Wandels in der Energiepolitik und beim Klimaschutz beschäftigen.

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Overcoming barriers to renewable energy diffusion: business models for customer-sited solar photovoltaics in Japan, Germany and the United States

Cited by 205 publications

References 58 publications

Evaluating solar energy technical and economic potential on rooftops in an urban setting: the city of Lethbridge, Canada

Evaluating solar energy technical and economic potential on rooftops in an urban setting: the city of Lethbridge, Canada

Review of distributed generation (DG) system planning and optimisation techniques: Comparison of numerical and mathematical modelling methods

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