PV Environmental Payback Analysis [RE-wrenches]
Doug Pratt
dmpratt at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 20 21:06:41 PST 2005
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Joel, here's a good two-page summary of PV payback from NREL dated Jan. '04.
(However, all the references are dated '00 or earlier.) I keep this one
bookmarked for customers who want to know if PV pays for itself. Short
enough for the typical attention span, with extensive references if they
want to dig deeper.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy04osti/35489.pdf
Cheers,
Doug Pratt
-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Davidson [mailto:joeldavidson at earthlink.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:17 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Re: PV Environmental Payback Analysis [RE-wrenches]
Thank you all for the info. Todd is right that the Home Power article is the
best plain language analysis. I can't find anything better from Knapp,
Alsema or others since year 2000. In summary:
1. Once produced, PV consumes nothing and emits nothing other than
electricity produced from light.
2. PV embedded energy payback time is substantially less than its expected
lifetime.
3. Amorphous thin-film PV has an energy payback time of less than 2 years.
Joel Davidson
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