Photovoltaic technological innovation system (PV TIS) in Iran: identifying barriers, incentives, dynamics and developing policies

Sadabadi, Ali Asghar; Rad, Zohreh Rahimi; Azimzadeh, Hossein

doi:10.1080/09640568.2022.2043837

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“…al. conducted a qualitative study in 2022 and they concluded barriers in 4 main categories (Economic, institutional, political, technical); and incentives in 6 categories (political, institutional, economic, social, technical, infrastructural, and geographical) [4]. Esmailzade et.…”

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“…Lack of supportive policies to promote solar PV deployment, and favourable regulatory framework revealed in this research as major barriers, have been disclosed in other studies as well, although they have diverse implications here. Supportive policy frameworks encouraging the investment in RE, coherent policies [65], [66], [67] levelling the playing field for fossil and RE to compete [68], supporting R&D, and innovation [15], raising public knowledge and awareness to promote their acceptance and participation, incentivising policies [4], [69], [70] have been some of the most frequent forms of favourable regulatory frameworks. However, depending on the political and social context of countries, the impact degree of favourable regulatory frameworks and their absence can differ considerably.…”

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“…This regime is either entrenched within our national borders or is rapidly internationalising. Focusing on Iran and the solar businesses situation there, it gets interesting to know that, with minor attention/support for solar PV in Iran, as a fossil fuel-rich developing country (FFRDC) and the least enabling policies, and incentives [4], [5], [6], [7] which is clearly reflected in the very slow growth of solar energy (Fig. 1), we witness a considerable number of local solar businesses.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Solar PV being still a niche market in Iran, and considering the whole previously mentioned facts regarding the fossil-based economy, here arises the question of: Why are there business actors in solar PV in Iran, despite the whole non-supportive policies, no incentives, and technical limitations, and no access to know-how, and … [14], [15], [4]. What drives their activity in this situation?…”

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Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Aghlimoghadam¹

2023

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Taking a socio-technical perspective, I focus on solar businesses (niche market actors) in Iran. As one of the key stakeholder groups whose business prosperity is tied to the development of solar PV, they play a crucial role in accelerating the energy transition. Given the incumbent fossil-based electricity sector in Iran and the least enabling policies, I am first interested to find (i) the main drivers and barriers of solar businesses; and (ii) the roles these solar businesses play in bringing solar PV deployment forward in Iran. I collected the data via 20 semi-structured interviews with solar businesses in Golestan, Guilan, Tehran, Khorasan Razavi, and Eastern Azerbaijan Provinces in Iran. Taking an inductive approach, I considered sustainability transition and social acceptance theories as sensitising concepts to investigate common and specific points of solar business acceptance in Iran. I find ecological awareness, belief in intergenerational justice, and willingness to innovate, as the main intrinsic drivers and socioeconomic opportunity and tackling the energy imbalance as extrinsic drivers; while the lack of a common vision with the energy governors, and the low knowledge of solar PV among the customers, escalating prices, and challenges to accessing good quality solar equipment are the most prior obstacles. Moreover, I understand educating people, driving the innovative deployment of solar PV, and facilitating the diffusion of it, as the major roles of solar businesses in Iran. I find that the sustainability transition literature overlooked the key role of solar businesses specially in fossil-based and developing economies. My findings suggest that the positive intrinsic mechanisms among the solar businesses, in combination with better-enabling policy frameworks and external factors, like lifting the sanctions and joining the global energy market, climate change mitigation commitments and standards, can help solar businesspeople to lead and accelerate solar PV development in Iran.

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Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Aghlimoghadam¹

2023

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“…The FIT escalation rate is a weighted average based on inflation rate and Euro/Rials exchange rate. The FIT is reduced after the first 10 years of operation to 70% [17].The main attention in empirical non-technical studies in Iran as a FFRDC, have been policymaking and governance issues [23,24], [25,26] besides some historical analysis of solar PV development via the lens of technological innovation system TIS [27,28]. Investigating the barriers toward solar energy development [29] sociotechnical barriers [30] as well as solar PV business environment analysis in Iran to investigate effective factors [31] have been other contributions in this issue.…”

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Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-Technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Aghlimoghadam

2023

Sustainability

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Market acceptance of renewable energy technologies involves both the demand and supply sides, though the main empirical literature has focused on the demand side under the titles like public, communities, users’, market or even social acceptance. In this study, I focus on solar businesses (niche actors) as the suppliers of solar PV services in Iran. My main research questions are: (i) which factors drive solar businesses to establish and do business in the solar PV field despite the fossil-based economy and energy policies in Iran? (ii) what are the practical barriers to solar business in Iran? and (iii) which roles do Iranian solar businesses play in bringing solar PV development forward? I collected the data via 20 semi-structured interviews with solar businesspeople in diverse Provinces in Iran. Taking an inductive approach (Grounded Theory) toward the data, my results lead to significant insights: the dominance of intrinsic behavioural drivers over the major extrinsic barriers among Iranian solar businesspeople, moreover to their key roles in educating people and driving the innovative deployment of solar PV. This research helps to inform first, policymakers about the existing potential among solar businesses, and second the solar businesses themselves about adopting better business strategies.

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Holding solar energy hostage? Evidences from the political economy of the solar photovoltaic innovation system in Iran

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Ghorbani

2023

Energy Research & Social Science

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Photovoltaic technological innovation system (PV TIS) in Iran: identifying barriers, incentives, dynamics and developing policies

Cited by 5 publications

References 71 publications

Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Solar Business in an Oil-Rich Country? A Socio-Technical Investigation of Solar PV Businesses in Iran

Holding solar energy hostage? Evidences from the political economy of the solar photovoltaic innovation system in Iran

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