This article reports a comparative analysis of the thrust in solar photovoltaic (PV) research during 1981-88 and 2001-08. Global solar PV literature in the later period recorded 4.5-fold increase over those in 1981-88. USA leads all the countries in terms of absolute number of publications as is...

The need for new energy infrastructure in Nigeria has long been established due to poor and unstable power supply, resulting in decrease of energy consumed when compared with African and World average. Solar Home System (SHS) is one of the sustainable renewable energy sources adequate for...

In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began offering solar installations to...

Studies analyzing renewable energy market development usually investigate additional capacity or investment. Characteristics, roles and determinants of cross border trade with renewable energy system components remain blurred. Environmental regulation and renewable energy policies are important...

The practice of product development and delivery has shifted increasingly from an individual firm to collaborative efforts along its supply chain and as such, effective supply chain management is seen as a way of obtaining competitive advantage for all firms within the supply chain. If firms are...

This article demonstrates that the large feed-in tariffs currently guaranteed for solar electricity in Germany constitute a subsidization regime that, if extended to 2020, threatens to reach a level comparable to that of German hard coal production, a notoriously outstanding example of misguided...

Over the past decade, a number of jurisdictions have taken significant steps to encourage the diffusion of solar photovoltaic technology (PV). Supportive policy frameworks have been widely adopted, spurring deployment and driving down the cost of PV components. The increased competitiveness of...

This study explores the economic feasibility of the underfloor heating system in North Cyprus. A case study of typical residential apartment 150m to compare the annual cost savings during the winter season between first the apartment depending only on split unit and second use solar energy to...