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Designing PV incentive programs to promote performance: A review of current practice in the US

✍ Scribed by Galen Barbose; Ryan Wiser; Mark Bolinger

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
293 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
1364-0321

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✦ Synopsis

In the US, the increasing financial support for customer-sited photovoltaic (PV) systems provided through publicly funded incentive programs has heightened concerns about the long-term performance of these systems. Given the barriers that customers face to ensuring that their PV systems perform well, and the responsibility that PV incentive programs bear to ensure that public funds are prudently spent, these programs should, and often do, play a critical role in addressing PV system performance. To provide a point of reference for assessing the current state of the art, and to inform program design efforts going forward, we examine the approaches to encouraging PV system performance used by 32 prominent PV incentive programs in the US. We identify eight general strategies or groups of related strategies that these programs have used to address factors that affect performance, and describe key implementation details. Based on this review, we then offer recommendations for how PV incentive programs can be effectively designed to mitigate potential performance issues.

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