The transformation of southern California's residential photovoltaics market through third-party ownership

Energy Policy

Volumn 42, Issue , 2012, Pages 681-690

  Drury, Easan ^a   Miller, Mackay ^a   Macal, Charles M ^b   Graziano, Diane J ^b   Heimiller, Donna ^a   Ozik, Jonathan ^b   Perry IV, Thomas D ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

PV adoption barriers; PV incentives; Third party PV ownership

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION BARRIERS; BUSINESS MODELS; CALIFORNIA; CARBON POLICY; COST SAVING; GROWING MARKETS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MARKET SHARE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PAYBACK TIME; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PV INCENTIVES; PV PRODUCT; PV SYSTEM; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECHNOLOGY RISKS; THIRD-PARTY PV OWNERSHIP; VALUE PROPOSITION;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INDUSTRY; POPULATION STATISTICS; SALES;

PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY MARKET; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856264244     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.12.047     Document Type: Article

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