The Impact of Retail Electricity Tariff Evolution on Solar Photovoltaic Deployment

Pieter Gagnon; Wesley Cole; Bethany Frew; Robert Margolis

doi:10.1016/j.tej.2017.10.003

The Impact of Retail Electricity Tariff Evolution on Solar Photovoltaic Deployment

Pieter Gagnon, Wesley Cole, Bethany Frew, Robert Margolis

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Abstract

This analysis explores the impact that the evolution of retail electricity tariffs can have on the deployment of solar photovoltaics. It suggests that ignoring the evolution of tariffs resulted in up to a 36% higher prediction of the capacity of distributed PV in 2050, compared to scenarios that represented tariff evolution. Critically, the evolution of tariffs had a negligible impact on the total generation from PV—both utility-scale and distributed—in the scenarios that were examined.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	22-28
Number of pages	7
Journal	Electricity Journal
Volume	30
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2017.10.003 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tej.2017.10.003
State	Published - Nov 2017

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NREL/JA-6A20-68849

Keywords

Adoption
DGen
Distributed
Evolution
Photovoltaics
Projection
Rates
ReEDS
Solar
Tariffs

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