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Laboratory of Technology Policy
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 Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BiPV) Technology Diffusion
Can carefully designed and targeted public policy and regulatory frameworks trigger and sustain the diffusion of BiPV technology?
The major contribution of our work has been the identification of primary niche markets for BiPV technology diffusion and the market-based policies that will trigger and sustain them. In the process, the major outcomes of the work include the definition of policy target groups, the assessment and quantification of the added values the technology presents to these groups, the quantification of the net cost of BiPV-generated electricity (according to the quantified added values) and the quantification of potentials. The importance of the work lies in the European-wide acknowledged need to move towards cleaner and renewable energy sources as a means to mitigate CO2 emissions, reduce the external dependency and increase the security of supply, while tackling the problem in a sector-oriented basis.
The work inclides the quantification of tangible added-values of BiPV applications for different policy target-groups and to the analysis of impacts on public policies design. Comparative assessments of the effects of added-values on the system economy is performed for different (electricity) regional markets in the US and Europe and the policy implications derived for each context.
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