Technical and Policy Barriers to Terawatt-Scale Implementation of Solar Photovoltaics
Description
This research identifies several barriers to large scale implementation of solar photovoltaics into the modern US electricity system, along with solutions to help mitigate these challenges. The need for new technologies and utility rate plans are identified as two of these key barriers. In place of expensive, developing technologies this research explores the use of thermal energy storage (TES), a widely used, inexpensive, mature technology as a potential solution for a portion of this problem. A real-life example from Arizona State University (ASU) is used to illustrate the potential of TES. In addition, shortcomings of modern electricity rate plans are identified using both cost and system characteristics of residential solar and battery systems. This rate and system modeling also gives insight into the value that solar can provide to residential customers in a variety of settings.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2022
Agent
- Author (aut): Routhier, Alexander F
- Thesis advisor (ths): Honsberg, Christiana
- Committee member: Hedman, Mojdeh
- Committee member: Kurtz, Sarah
- Committee member: Miller, Clark
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University