The technical, geographical, and economic feasibility for solar energy to supply the energy needs of the US

By Vasilis Fthenakis, J. Mason, K. Zweibel. 2009

339 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Mark Z. Jacobson
2. D. P. Vuuren
3. R. Wiser
4. Tobias S. Schmidt
5. M. Delucchi
6. R. Bergström
7. T. Bond
8. Vijaysinh Jadhav

In Pollution

1. M. Delucchi
2. Mark Z. Jacobson
3. Tara Chandra Kandpal
4. D. P. Vuuren
5. Paul Denholm
6. G. Heath
7. P. Diwan
8. Tobias S. Schmidt

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Tobias S. Schmidt
2. Malte H. G. Schneider
3. Mark Z. Jacobson
4. D. P. Vuuren
5. Paul Denholm
6. N. Darghouth
7. D. Gernaat
8. R. Wiser

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Solar Photovoltaic Levelized Cost of Electricity (2011, neutral): “Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2006631 As the solar photovoltaic (PV) matures, the economic feasibility of PV projects are increasingly being evaluated using the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) generation in order to be compared to other electricity generation…”
• Shedding light on solar technologies—A techno-economic assessment and its policy implications (2011, background): “To meet these challenges a "technology revolution" (Galiana and Green, 2009) in the field of clean energy technologies is required in order to decouple economic growth from adverse environmental impacts.”
• The Private and Public Economics of Renewable Electricity Generation (2012, neutral): “Studies have identified sufficient sites that if these locations were developed with wind and solar generation they could make the technology the dominant electricity sources in the United States – see NREL (2010) on wind power and Fthenakis et al (2009) on solar.”
• A review on global solar energy policy (2011, neutral): “26TW of distributed PV [32,33].”
• Assessing current and future techno-economic potential of concentrated solar power and photovoltaic electricity generation (2015, background): “Obviously, the ability to generate utility-scale solar electricity also depends on the availability of (different types of) land [23,25,27,28].”
• Renewable Electricity Futures Study. Volume 1. Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Electricity Futures (2012, background): “…of renewable energy in the United States and globally include (but are not limited to) Pacala and Socolow (2004); ACORE (2007); Kutscher (2007); Greenblatt (2009); GWEC/GPI (2008); Fthenakis et al. (2009); Jacobson and Delucchi (2009); Sawin and Moomaw (2009); EREC/GPI (2008); and Lovins (2011).”
• Sustainable energy systems: Role of optimization modeling techniques in power generation and supply—A review (2011, background): “[116] V. Fthenakis et al. 2009 A study to forecast future energy demand levels in three distinct stages (Present to 2020, 2020–2050, and 2050–2100) in realizing the development of the SW solar power plant for the US, and its extrapolation for the deployment level of existing solar technologies,…”