The reduction in the costs of residential photovoltaic (PV) systems has increased their
viability and implementation for self-consumption and export of energy electricity. The …

While the uptake of solar energy has been a success in recent years, PV panels will cause
an increasing waste problem in the coming decades. At the same time, it is important to …

In response to an increasingly competitive electricity market, with photovoltaic (PV)
technology costs rapidly decreasing and governments incentivizing the development of …

An important issue in various domains of renewable energy is the use of technological
improvement trends to project future capabilities of energy technologies. This paper …

In this paper a comprehensive evaluation of the support policy for photovoltaic installations
in the residential sector of the major European markets (Flanders (Belgium), Germany, Italy …

Solar energy is rapidly emerging thanks to the decreasing installation cost of solar panels
and the renewable portfolio standard imposed by state governments, which gave birth to the …

The progressive fall in the cost of residential photovoltaic (PV) systems opens the possibility
of evaluating systems that do not export surpluses to the grid, avoiding bureaucratic …

Over the past three years Italy has seen a rapid growth in the PV (photovoltaic) energy
market, followed by an equally sudden decline when the government decided to reduce the …

This study evaluates investment in a utility-scale solar power plant using a real-options
approach (ROA). Although ROAs have been widely applied in the literature, the deferring …

The tradable green certificates (TGC) framework is a prevalent policy support scheme
enacted to stimulate investments in electricity from renewable energy sources (RES-E). In …