Article ID: | iaor201110429 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 11 |
Start Page Number: | 6914 |
End Page Number: | 6915 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Croucher Matt |
Keywords: | economics |
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.