Capacity factors and solar job creation

Matt Croucher

Energy Policy, 2011, vol. 39, issue 11, 6914-6915

Abstract: We discuss two main job creation statistics often used by solar advocates to support increased solar deployment. Whilst overall solar technologies have a tendency to be labor-intensive, we find that the jobs per gigawatt hour statistic is relatively mis-leading as it has a tendency to reward technologies that have a low capacity factor. Ultimately the lower the capacity factor the more amplified the solar job creation number.

Keywords: Job creation; Capacity factor; Solar deployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.060

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