Don't just follow the sun - A global assessment of economic performance for residential building photovoltaics

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 42, Issue , 2015, Pages 932-951

  Lang, Tillmann ^a   Gloerfeld, Erik ^a   Girod, Bastien ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Economic performance; Photovoltaics (PV); Residential buildings; Rooftop PV

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOSSIL FUELS; HOUSING; SOLAR PANELS; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE; LOW CARBON; PERFORMANCE; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER GENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAICS; POWER SECTOR; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; ROOFTOP PHOTOVOLTAIC;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84911941727     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: 18790690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.10.077     Document Type: Review

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