Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future

S Chu, A Majumdar - nature, 2012 - nature.com
Access to clean, affordable and reliable energy has been a cornerstone of the world's
increasing prosperity and economic growth since the beginning of the industrial revolution …

Review on recent trend of solar photovoltaic technology

M Gul, Y Kotak, T Muneer - Energy Exploration & …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Solar photovoltaic technology is one of the renewable technologies, which has a potential to
shape a clean, reliable, scalable and affordable electricity system for the future. This article …

The private and public economics of renewable electricity generation

S Borenstein - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012 - aeaweb.org
Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional
approaches but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more …

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity of marginal emissions: Implications for electric cars and other electricity-shifting policies

JSG Zivin, MJ Kotchen, ET Mansur - Journal of Economic Behavior & …, 2014 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop a methodology for estimating marginal emissions of electricity
demand that vary by location and time of day across the United States. The approach takes …

Submodule integrated distributed maximum power point tracking for solar photovoltaic applications

RCN Pilawa-Podgurski… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper explores the benefits of distributed power electronics in solar photovoltaic
applications through the use of submodule integrated maximum power point trackers …

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

E Drury, M Miller, CM Macal, DJ Graziano, D Heimiller… - Energy Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
Third-party photovoltaics (PV) ownership is a rapidly growing market trend, where
commercial companies own and operate customer-sited PV systems and lease PV …

The economics of solar electricity

E Baker, M Fowlie, D Lemoine… - Annu. Rev. Resour …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
The benefits and costs of increasing solar electricity generation depend on the scale of the
increase and on the time frame over which it occurs. Short-run analyses focus on the cost …

Switch: a planning tool for power systems with large shares of intermittent renewable energy

M Fripp - Environmental science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Wind and solar power are highly variable, so it is it unclear how large a role they can play in
future power systems. This work introduces a new open-source electricity planning model …

Changes in the economic value of variable generation at high penetration levels: a pilot case study of California

A Mills - 2012 - escholarship.org
We estimate the long-run economic value of variable renewable generation with increasing
penetration using a unique investment and dispatch model that captures long-run …

Comparative economic analysis of supporting policies for residential solar PV in the United States: Solar Renewable Energy Credit (SREC) potential

JE Burns, JS Kang - Energy policy, 2012 - Elsevier
Numerous studies and market reports suggest that the solar photovoltaic markets rely
heavily, if not entirely, upon governmental support policies at present. Unlike in other …