社区太阳能采用研究的新途径：美国十个州的定性比较分析

IF 3.8 3区经济学 Q3 ENERGY & FUELS

Utilities Policy Pub Date : 2025-03-08 DOI:10.1016/j.jup.2025.101914

Dong Min Kim , Shan Zhou , Adam M. Wellstead

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摘要

社区太阳能为每个家庭和企业提供了利用太阳能优势的机会。在社区太阳能采用文献中，定性和具体案例调查提出了潜在的采用因素，如相关政策、太阳能技术潜力和社会经济措施。然而，有限的努力一直致力于评估这些因果条件的复杂动态，更不用说发展的经验证据。本文利用模糊集定性比较分析（fsQCA）来研究美国社区太阳能采用因素的动态，填补了这些空白。fsQCA的应用以集合理论原理和真值表分析为基础，能够对十大采用州中促进社区太阳能采用的各种条件配置进行全面评估。结果显示，在最活跃的州，政府自由主义的采用路径各不相同。对于保守的州来说，主要因素是人均GDP不富裕和强大的太阳能潜力。另一方面，自由州普遍具有强大的太阳能潜力和高电价，这是采用社区太阳能的共同因素。

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New avenues for community solar adoption research: A qualitative comparative analysis of ten U.S. states

Community solar presents an opportunity for every household and business to harness the advantages of solar energy. In the community solar adoption literature, qualitative and case-specific investigations have suggested potential adoption factors, such as related policies, solar technical potential, and socioeconomic measures. However, limited effort has been devoted to evaluating the complex dynamics of these causal conditions, let alone the development of empirical evidence. This paper fills these gaps using fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) to examine the dynamics of U.S. community solar adoption factors. The application of fsQCA, grounded in set-theoretic principles and truth-table analysis, enables a comprehensive evaluation of the various configurations of conditions that contribute to community solar adoption among the top ten adopting states. The results show that, in the most active states, adoption paths vary in government liberalism. For conservative states, the primary factors were a non-wealthy GDP per capita and strong solar potential. On the other hand, liberal states commonly had strong solar potential and high electricity prices as their common factors for adopting community solar.

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Utilities Policy ENERGY & FUELS-ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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6.80

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66 days

期刊介绍： Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services. Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.