The effects and financial impacts of wildfire smoke on solar photovoltaic power production in Alberta, Canada
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Keywords
Photovoltaic production; Wildfires; PM2.5; Financial impact; Random forest; Solar power.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C55 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Large Data Sets: Modeling and Analysis
- N72 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- P18 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Energy; Environment
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2025-04-14 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENE-2025-04-14 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2025-04-14 (Environmental Economics)
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