Influence of local environmental, social, economic and political variables on the spatial distribution of residential solar PV arrays across the United States

Influence of local environmental, social, economic and political variables on the spatial distribution of residential solar PV arrays across the United States [1]

This study used ZIP code level data from the 2000 US Census to investigate the influence of local environmental, social, economic and political variables on the distribution of residential solar PV arrays across the United States. Current locations of residential solar PVs were documented using data from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Open PV project. A zero-inflated negative binomial reression model was run to evaluate the influence of selected variables. Using the same model, predicted residential solar PV shares were generated and illustrated using GIS software.

Publication Date:

01/08/2012

Author(s): Calvin Lee Kwan [2]

Source: Energy Policy [3]

Vol:

pp:

332–344

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