Accelerating demand for residential solar photovoltaics: Can simple framing strategies increase consumer interest?

Profitability of Residential Battery Energy Storage Combined with Solar Photovoltaics

Lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries are increasingly being considered as bulk energy storage in grid applications. One such application is residential energy storage combined with solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to enable higher self-consumption rates, which has become financially more attractive recently due to decreasing feed-in subsidies. Although residential energy storage solutions are commercia...

Bayesian Learning of Consumer Preferences for Residential Demand Response

In coming years residential consumers will face real-time electricity tariffs with energy prices varying day to day, and effective energy saving will require automation – a recommender system, which learns consumer’s preferences from her actions. A consumer chooses a scenario of home appliance use to balance her comfort level and the energy bill. We propose a Bayesian learning algorithm to esti...

Photovoltaics: an alternative 'Sun' for solar cells.

Consumer Demand for Traceability

The International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium is an informal association of University and Government economists interested in agricultural trade. Its purpose is to foster interaction, improve research capacity and to focus on relevant trade policy issues. It is financed by United States Department of Agriculture (ERS, and FAS), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and the participating ...

Photovoltaics: More solar cells for less.