Cost competitiveness of residential solar PV: The impact of net metering restrictions

S Comello, S Reichelstein - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The policy of net metering allows operators of residential-and commercial solar PV systems
to sell surplus electricity back to their utility at the going retail rate. This policy has recently …

Electric power industry: Operational and public policy challenges and opportunities

GG Parker, B Tan, O Kazan - Production and Operations …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
The electric power industry is undergoing dramatic change driven by rapid technological
transformation, concern over climate change, and evolving market structures. As a result …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating tomato production in open-field and high-tech greenhouse systems

F Maureira, K Rajagopalan, CO Stöckle - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
High-tech greenhouse production of vegetables has been proposed as a path to sustainable
intensification of food production. While these systems have clear productivity advantages …

Microgrid to enable optimal distributed energy retail and end-user demand response

M Jin, W Feng, C Marnay, C Spanos - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In the face of unprecedented challenges in environmental sustainability and grid resilience,
there is an increasingly held consensus regarding the adoption of distributed and renewable …

Future-proof tariff design: Recovering sunk grid costs in a world where consumers are pushing back

T Schittekatte, I Momber, L Meeus - Energy economics, 2018 - Elsevier
Traditional analysis of distribution network tariff design assumes a lack of alternatives to grid
connection for the fulfilment of consumers' electricity needs. This is radically changing with …

Myths and facts of the utility death spiral

M Castaneda, M Jimenez, S Zapata, CJ Franco, I Dyner - Energy Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
As the electricity industry is changing worldwide, the swift expansion of basic forms of
Distributed Generation (DG), particularly photovoltaic deployment, threatens the current …

Momentum is increasing towards a flexible electricity system based on renewables

C Mitchell - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Total global energy use is rising, and remains based on fossil fuels. Yet, the challenge of
climate change requires a deep decarbonization of our energy system. Here I argue that the …

On the utility death spiral and the impact of utility rate structures on the adoption of residential solar photovoltaics and energy storage

ND Laws, BP Epps, SO Peterson, MS Laser… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Today, many electric utilities are changing their pricing structures to address the rapidly-
growing market for residential photovoltaic (PV) and electricity storage technologies. Little is …

[HTML][HTML] Public sentiment toward solar energy—opinion mining of twitter using a transformer-based language model

SY Kim, K Ganesan, P Dickens, S Panda - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Public acceptance and support for renewable energy are important determinants of the low-
carbon energy transition. This paper examines public sentiment toward solar energy in the …

The long-term effects of cautious feed-in tariff reductions on photovoltaic generation in the UK residential sector

M Castaneda, S Zapata, J Cherni, AJ Aristizabal… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent years, the UK electricity sector has been seeking to achieve its environmental
targets through subsidies to renewables. Although subsidies, through feed-in tariffs, to …