{"title":"Timeline of Relevant Milestones for Solar","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121755160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Startups: Case Study of a Startup (BloombergNEF)","authors":"","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131505299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology Focus: Photovoltaics","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0018","url":null,"abstract":"Crystalline silicon is the workhorse of the photovoltaic power industry, making up about 95% of the modules sold in 2017. There are only two significant companies supplying anything else, as of December 2018: US-headquartered First Solar Inc making cadmium telluride modules, and Japanese Solar Frontier KK making copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) modules. Both are considered ‘thin film’ technologies, i.e. the process of making the modules involves depositing the semiconductor onto glass as a vapour and letting it crystallise in place in a layer a few microns thick. This is in contrast to the standard crystalline silicon type, where the semiconductor (silicon) is first crystallised into a block (ingot) and then cut it into slices at least 100 microns thick, a batch process with significant wastage (Table 18.1)…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126877776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Operating Solar Plants, and How Big Data Can Help","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0019","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 14 on the cost of energy assumed that the running cost of a PV plant is negligible, which is good enough for a first approximation. The beauty of PV is that it sits in the sun and generates energy with very little interference, and most plants (with the exception of those using tracking) have no moving parts to break…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116213176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Challenges of Intermittency, and Possible Solutions","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0023","url":null,"abstract":"In late February 2018, the UK was in the grip of an extreme weather system called the ‘Beast from the East’. This was a period of intense cold and snow across the country, which is usually protected by the warmth of the Gulf Stream ocean current, and has infrastructure designed for a generally clement climate…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123375391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Networking and Other Stuff Not Taught at State Schools","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0011","url":null,"abstract":"One of the things I find hardest about the world of work — and, specifically, business rather than academia — is knowing how to behave in certain situations. Some people find this easy, some feel really awkward at the intersection of professional and social behaviour. Maybe that’s not you, in which case, lucky you. There is probably a class element to it, as well.","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121777855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting Methods: Difficulties and Discontinuities","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0009","url":null,"abstract":"Physicist Niels Bohr is reported to have said “Prediction is difficult, especially about the future”. While significant strides have been made in weather forecasting and predicting at least the frequency of earthquakes over the past 100 years, predictions relating to human behaviour and economics remain direly inaccurate. As statistician Nate Silver says in his excellent book The Signal and the Noise (2012), “we are unable to predict recessions more than a few months in advance, and not for want of trying”. He observes that in December 2007, economists on The Wall Street Journal forecasting panel predicted only a 38% likelihood of recession in the next year, which was remarkable because the data would later show that the economy was already in recession at the time…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133241334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can Solar Save the World?","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0022","url":null,"abstract":"I’m going to assume that the reader already has serious concerns about climate change caused by humans burning fossil fuels. If not, it is unlikely that I can say much to convince you; it is the biggest challenge to humanity of this century, likely to have serious impacts in all kinds of unanticipated ways and kill millions of people. This chapter will focus on whether solar can make a meaningful contribution to the world’s energy supply so we can continue to use power, and have the standard of living we have come to expect, without digging stuff up and burning it…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115276882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Solar Technologies — The Basics","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0002","url":null,"abstract":"There are three major applications for solar power. They are passive solar heating, solar thermal electricity generation and photovoltaics. The first two involve using the sun’s heat to make a fluid — usually water — hot, and if you make it very hot you can use the steam to run a turbine to generate electricity, exactly as in fossil fuel-fired power plants. They are included for completeness and because solar heat can, in the right place, significantly contribute to energy supply. The third application, photovoltaics, is the main focus of this book. It is a technology that has no moving parts and requires no material inputs once it is installed, and generates electricity directly. It is also the one that has made great progress technically and economically in the last few decades, and looks set to explode further.","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116301203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2005–2008: The First Big Solar, Supply Constraints","authors":"J. Chase","doi":"10.1142/9781786347404_0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/9781786347404_0006","url":null,"abstract":"I have chosen 2005 as the first year to write about mainly because it was the year I started working full time in clean energy, but it is not unreasonable: new photovoltaic installations globally rose from 1106 MW in 2004 to 1488 MW in 2005, when the German ‘feed-in tariff’ introduced in 2004 started to kick in. This was a landmark piece of legislation that had both intended and unintended consequences, and has been both emulated and cursed. It will be a brave government that passes an uncapped feed-in tariff for solar into law again, for reasons that will become clear. However, it was a major factor in driving the dramatic cost reductions in solar, and everyone now working in the solar industry owes the German electricity consumer a debt for paying the first mover prices…","PeriodicalId":431333,"journal":{"name":"Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon","volume":"26 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126052575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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