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The Political Economy of Solar Energy
Brito, Dagobert; Rosellon, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
At the present time, solar power is not a competitive fuel for supplying electricity to the grid in the United States. However, an economic model developed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) forecasts that solar power production costs could drop twenty percent every time...
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Odhad nákladů na podporu české fotovoltaické energie
Janda, Karel; Krska, Stepan; Prusa, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Renewable Energy will be implemented, the costs on photovoltaics support will account for more than one half of all costs on …
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Source of Cost Reduction in Solar Photovoltaics
Pillai, Unni; Cruz, Kyle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The price of solar panels has fallen rapidly over the last few decades. Using an extensive dataset of prices, costs, output, sales and technical characteristics of firms in the solar industry during 2005-2011, this paper investigates the factors that have contributed to the decline in costs and...
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A Model of Competition in the Solar Panel Industry
Pillai, Unni; McLaughlin, Jamison - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We develop a model of competition in the solar panel industry. Solar firms manufacture panels that are differentiated both vertically and horizontally, and compete by setting quantities. The equilibrium of the model is consistent with a set of stylized facts that we document, including variation...
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A Solar-Home Rental Business Model: Capturing Synergies from Solar Energy and Single Family Rental Properties
Lutey, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract. The credit market collapse and housing-led economic recession beginning in 2007-2008 have resulted in several million distressed homes in the U.S. that are in various stages of delinquency, default, and foreclosure. Over the past three to four years, a number of private equity...
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The impact of the solar energy collecting systems on an individual agricultural household
Turek Rahoveanu, Petruta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Using solar energy through photovoltaic systems implementation in an agricultural household leads to the increasing of it’s efficiency, to optimizing energy balance thus implying the decreasing of the primary energy costs. The solar energy refers to a renewable energy source that is produced...
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Collinsville solar thermal project: Energy economics and dispatch forecasting - Final report
Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This report primarily aims to provide both dispatch and wholesale spot price forecasts for the proposed hybrid gas-solar thermal plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia for its lifetime 2017-47. These forecasts are to facilitate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) negotiations and to evaluate...
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Collinsville solar thermal project: Yield forecasting – Final report
Bell, William Paul; Wild, Phillip; Foster, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The primary aim of this report is to produce hourly yield projections of electricity power for the proposed LFR plant at Collinsville, Queensland, Australia based on the environmental condition between 2007 and 2013. However, the techniques and methods used to overcome the inadequacies of the...
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Bank competition, securitization and risky investment
Li, Zhe; Sun, Jianfei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We build a general equilibrium model of bank competition in which securitization is the banks�optimal choice. A …
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Explaining the Housing Bubble
Levitin, Adam; Wachter, Susan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
: mortgage-finance spreads declined and volume increased, even as risk increased—a confluence attributable only to an oversupply … price risk correctly due to the complexity, opacity, and heterogeneity of the unregulated private-label mortgage … the complexity and heterogeneity of PLS would facilitate accurate risk pricing, which is necessary to rebuild a …
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