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Risk analysis is essential for attracting investment to solar projects. This paper measures risk as the variability in internal rate of return (IRR) and estimates it from the uncertainty in (i) future systems prices, (ii) operations costs and (iii) revenues based on energy yield, irradiance and electricity prices. We quantify these risks for photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) projects...
While maps of solar irradiance are readily available, they do not represent the economic viability of a solar project in any particular location. This paper provides a financial analysis with different electricity tariffs and then maps the internal rate of return (IRR) of solar load displacement projects. We examine 25 locations in the southwestern USA and show that IRR maps differ substantially from...
Systems cost incentives have been used in USA and Canada to stimulate the deployment of solar power. This paper analyzes the impact of such incentives on the internal rate of return (IRR) from residential, offsetting projects in Canada, focusing on Regina, a high irradiance city. For a given percentage systems cost reduction, the IRR increases by a higher percentage. The impact on the IRR for photovoltaic...
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