IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/innchp/978-3-319-68987-6_1.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Landscape Analysis: Regulations, Policies, and Innovation in Photovoltaic Industry

In: Infrastructure and Technology Management

Author

Listed:
  • Dmitriy Moskovkin

    (REFCCO Consulting Group)

  • Anna Mary Mathew

    (Intel Corp)

  • Qin Guo

    (Portland State University)

  • Roli Eyetsemitan

    (Air Liquide Electronics)

  • Tugrul U. Daim

    (Portland State University)

Abstract

Reflecting concerns over the environment, health, and security stemming from the consumption of conventional fossil fuel energy sources, such as gas, oil, and coal, has been raised in the world, which increases the expectation of replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy [1]. In addition to these concerns, rising prices of fossil fuels have forced many countries to support the development of renewable energy sources, such as, solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal [3]. Among these renewable energy sources, solar photovoltaics (PV), which is also known as solar electric system, has long been considered as a clean and sustainable energy that directly converts solar radiation into current electricity by using semiconducting materials [4]. A PV system comprises a PV module and other electrical components, such as charge controllers, inverters, and disconnects. The direct conversion of sunlight to electricity occurs without any moving parts or environmental emissions during operation, which significantly protects the environment. Meanwhile, it has been well proved that PV installations can operate for no less than 100 years with little maintenance, thus extremely reducing the operating cost [4]. As Fig. 1.1 shows, this report begins with a detailed analysis of policies and regulations influencing the current innovation activities of solar PV. In particular, this study pays attention to the government policy supporting technological innovation and market creation. In addition, this report profited substantially from the knowledge of a few experts and research leaders in the industry and academic field who made themselves available for interviews and other queries. Then followed with several case studies on three countries – Germany, Japan, and the USA – some data were collected to analyze how market entry, product safety, environmental policies, and incentives influence the innovation of PV industry. Finally, we provide conclusions and policy implications on the development of the solar PV industry.

Suggested Citation

  • Dmitriy Moskovkin & Anna Mary Mathew & Qin Guo & Roli Eyetsemitan & Tugrul U. Daim, 2018. "Landscape Analysis: Regulations, Policies, and Innovation in Photovoltaic Industry," Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management, in: Tugrul U. Daim & Leong Chan & Judith Estep (ed.), Infrastructure and Technology Management, chapter 0, pages 3-17, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-68987-6_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68987-6_1
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:innchp:978-3-319-68987-6_1. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.