An International Comparison of the Economics of Building Integrated PV in different Resource, Pricing and Policy Environments: The Cases of the U.S., Japan and South Korea
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2000
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Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Abstract
In recent years, the Center for Energy and Environmental
Policy (CEEP), working with affiliated academic and
research institutions in the U.S. and East Asia, has
investigated the technical and economic feasibility of using
dispatchable photovoltaic (DPV) systems in distributed
peak-shaving (PS) applications. In each case, modest
amounts of battery storage are used in conjunction with a
PV array to achieve firm peak shaving for commercial
building operators. Recent investigations have added
emergency power as a second function of DPV-PS systems
installed on commercial buildings.
This paper reports on CEEP’s latest studies carried out in the
US, Japan and South Korea which offer a cross-national
review of the performance of dual-function DPV systems
designed to serve peak shaving and emergency power needs
of the commercial buildings sector. The market assessment
results for each country are derived from PV Planner, a
spreadsheet analytical tool developed at CEEP to run
simulations of building integrated PV applications under
different resource, pricing and policy environments. The
analyses in all three countries rely on electricity load data
from actual buildings, resource data for specific national
locations, and actual electricity tariffs in use in each country.
The paper recommends policies that can enable PV to
compete as an energy service application in an international
market.
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Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society Solar 2000 Conference. 2000.