Capacity factors and solar job creation

Capacity factors and solar job creation

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

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