Palmer, Graham - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1406-1442
With declining system costs and assuming a short energy payback period, photovoltaics (PV) should, at face value, be … reliable electricity. Further, much of the energy impact of PV occurs outside of the conventional boundaries of PV life … support. It may be technically possible to integrate a high penetration of PV, but the economic and energy cost of …