Browsing 1. Reports by Subject "Photovoltaic power generation."
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The consumer response to photovoltaics: the MIT Sun Day experience
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979-02)This paper reports on the results of the MIT Energy Laboratory Sun Day PV study. This study continued our assessment of likely market response to photovoltaics. The Sun Day exhibit attracted a high proportion of solar ... -
The diffusion of photovoltaics : background, modeling and initial reaction of the agricultural - irrigation sector
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1978)This paper deals with the background, development and calibration of a model of innovation-diffusion, designed to help allocate government field test and demonstration resources in support of a photovoltaic technology ... -
The economic impact of state ordered avoided cost rates for photovoltaic generated electricity
([Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, 1981, 1981)The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) of 1978 requires that electric utilities purchase electricity generated by small power producers (QFs) such as photovoltaic systems at rates that will encourage the ... -
Flywheel storage for photovoltaics: an economic evaluation of two applications
(Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory in association with the Sloan School of Management and the Dept, of Urban Studies and Planning, 1980, 1980)A worth analysis is made for an advanced flywheel storage concept for tandem operation with photovoltaics currently being developed at MIT/Lincoln Laboratories. The applications examined here are a single family residence ... -
The impact on photovoltaic worth of utulity rate and reform and of specific market, financial, and policy variables : a commercialindustrialinstitution sector analysis
(Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, 1980, 1980)This work provides an assessment of the economic outlook for photovoltaic systems in the commercial, industrial and institutional sectors in the year 1986. We first summarize the expected cost and performance goals for ... -
Institutional analysis of the acceptance of photovoltaics in daytime radio broadcasting
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979-06)This paper, one of a series resulting from institutional analysis of photovoltaic (PV) acceptance, is undertaken in relation to a field test of PV applicability for use by a small-scale daytime AM radio station. ... -
Micro irrigation with photovoltaics
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Mobile-component housing and solar energy : the possibilities
(Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, 1980, 1980)This paper is part of a body of work directed at enhancing the acceptance of photovoltaics in various sectors of the U.S. economy. The focus here is on residential applications. The work is funded by the U.S. Department ... -
A photovoltaic assisted residence with supplemental battery storage : searching for a complementarity
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979)A significant mismatch may exist between residential load characteristics and array output from photovoltaic energy conversion systems. This has warranted a closer look at incorporating energy storage as a supplement ... -
The photovoltaic market analysis program : background, model development, applications and extensions
([Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, 1981, 1981)The purpose of this report is to describe and motivate the market analysis program for photovoltaics that has developed over the last several years. The main objective of the program is to develop tools and procedures to ... -
Photovoltaics and the National Park Service : an institutional analysis
(Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory, 1980, 1980)This paper is one of a series resulting from institutional analysis of photovoltaic (PV) acceptance. The case reported here involves the acceptance of PV by the National Park Service. As part of the Department of the ... -
A simultaneous preference reporting methodology applied to the Nebraska agricultural community
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1978-10)One of a series of publications which are part of the institutional analysis research conducted under the Department of Energy's Photovoltaic (PV) Program, this paper describes the Simultaneous Preference Reporting ... -
Social cost factors and the development of photovoltaic energy systems
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979)This report presents the results of a social cost evaluation of three prospective photovoltaic electricity supply technologies. The technologies-based on cadmium sulfide, silicon, and gallium arsenide--are compared ... -
Solar heating and cooling of housing : five institutional analysis case studies
(Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Energy Laboratory in association with the Sloan School of Management and the Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1979, 1979)This paper is one of a series resulting from institutional analysis of photovoltaic (PV) acceptance. The case studies reported here involve use of solar thermal technologies in variuos residential settings. All of the ... -
Solar heating and cooling of housing : |b five institutional analysis case studies
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979-06)This paper is one of a series resulting from institutional analysis of photovoltaic (PV) acceptance. The case studies reported here involve use of solar thermal technologies in various residential settings. All of the ... -
Solar heating and cooling standard setting : an institutional analysis case study
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979-08)As a companion to other studies of the standards problem for photovoltaics, this paper reports results of an institutional analysis case study of the effort to create solar thermal standards during the period 1974-78. ... -
SunDay: a second application of a simultaneous preference reporting methodology
(MIT Energy Laboratory, 1979-01)This paper, the second of three publications reporting on a Simultaneous Preference Reporting Methodology (SPRM), describes the collection of data on SunDay in May 1978. Respondents were drawn from among public ...