The Role of Policy in PV Industry Growth: Past, Present and Future

Handbook of Photovoltaic Science and Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-81

  Byrne, John ^a   Kurdgelashvili, Lado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal and state policies, facilitating strong demands for PV systems in the US; Japan, supporting PV system deployment grid connected photovoltaic installations in Japan; Photovoltaic (PV) industry, phenomenal growth market demand, expanding at an annual rate; Policy strategies in key countries and markets model to analyze and compare policy mechanisms, and rapid adoption of PV; PV diffusion in US different policy scenarios; PV markets, global PV industry growing faster than any renewable or non renewable energy option; Renewable portfolio standard (RPS) and second favored policy instrument among US states, and net metering; Role of policy in PV industry growth past, present and future; Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) two major POUs pioneering PV use; Solar carve out policy effect, for rapid deployment of PV promotion of a solar carve out under a national RPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855203890     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470974704.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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