Photovoltaic Venture Analysis: Final Report, Volume I

Costello, D.; Posner, David M.; Schiffel, Dennis; Doane, James; Bishop, Charles A.

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“…In 1977, the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) conducted a Photovoltaic Venture Analysis [17]. This study analyzed a proposed subsidy for private purchases of PV systems and concluded that such an approach was not an effective means of stimulating system cost reductions.…”

Section: Problems and Uncertainties In Implementationmentioning

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The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program: An evaluation and learning framework

Hart

1983

Policy Sci

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The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program (FPU P) was established in 1978 with the belief that getting photovoltaic cells into the market was a "bootstrap problem" -one of eliminating market uncertainties through federal procurements to enable investments in improved production processes. A lack of clearly defined program objectives and expected results, however, was translated into continuing difficulties in implementation. Using the FPU P experience as an example, an alternative model of photovoltaic procurement is proposed which is simultaneously more structured (in that greater analytical control is used in selecting applications to fund) and more adaptive (in that continuous feedback is built in). A discussion of such a framework and sequential evaluation design is followed by some comments pertaining to the future of other commercialization efforts.

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The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program: An evaluation and learning framework

Hart

1983

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“…The learning concept, its properties and uses, has been the subject of extensive study and discussion [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] producing relevant data and theoretical knowledge of the subject. The learning concept, also called manufacturing progress function [8], is presently used to characterize an increasing labor efficiency: again, as workers repeat an operation, they learn, and the number of person-hours required per unit of production declines; the efficiency improvement is regular and predictable [11, p. 410].…”

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“…The concepts of learning and experience have been developed in the business management and industrial economics literature as ways to explain cost reductions observed in some industries; learning and experience curves were developed in order to estimate the magnitude of reduction in costs [9,10,12,13]. In the broadest sense, the concepts of learning and experience are based on the premise that, as people gain experience with methods of producing a particular product, improvements will be identified and implemented.…”

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“…The learning curve is a generalization about the sources of short-run cost reductions. A literature survey of learning curve applications [8,9,10] indicates that different authors have presented a wide variety of definitions of the sources of cost reduction in manufacturing new products that are generalized in this phenomenon. There is no consensus in the literature as to whether a given process innovation will result in a -shift in the learning curve or a movement along the curve.…”

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Investigation of learning and experience curves

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Thornton²,

Edesess³

1980

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The applicability of the learning and experience curves to predict future costs of solar energy technologies here has as its major test case the production economics of heliostats. The literature review indicated that the methods most often employed in past empirical studies to estimate and predict overall cost reduction in manufacturing new products are the "bottoms-up" engineering costs method, the engineering parametric approach, and aggregate cost estimation techniques. There are practical limitations to these methods when applied to predict cost reductions separately.

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“…Over what period should government involvement extend? The appropriate, overarching criterion to apply in answering the fundamental question of govern mental involvement is that of net social benefits resulting from the action (Costello et al, 1978). Prograiii-let,el issues, on the other hand, assume that the government's role is justified and address questions of how to carry out program objectives.…”

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Technological Diffusion Research And National Policy Issues

Roessner

1980

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Photovoltaic Venture Analysis: Final Report, Volume I

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The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program: An evaluation and learning framework

The Federal Photovoltaics Utilization Program: An evaluation and learning framework

Investigation of learning and experience curves

Technological Diffusion Research And National Policy Issues

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