Analyzing historical cost trends in California's market for customer-sited photovoltaics

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 69-85

  Wiser, Ryan ^a   Bolinger, Mark ^a   Cappers, Peter ^b   Margolis, Robert ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Utilipoint International Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Costs; Data; Incentives; Markets; Photovoltaics; Policy; Regression

Indexed keywords

COST ACCOUNTING; MARKETING; PUBLIC POLICY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLAR CELLS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INCENTIVES; PHOTOVOLTAIC INSTALLATIONS; SOLAR COSTS;

PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EID: 33846355705     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.726     Document Type: Article

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