Residential solar PV, Freiburg, Germany.

Articles, Tables, and Commentary on Solar Energy

by Paul Gipe

December 24, 2007

• General Solar Commentary
• General Solar Tables
• SolarShare Articles
• SolarShare Tables & Charts

General Solar Commentary

• Lehr Brothers' 119 kW Solar PV Plant in Edison California
• The Ontario Solar Initiative: 1,000 MW Solar PV by 2017
• Solar Without Limits: Breaking Free from Net Metering
• South Australia Weighs Timid Solar Tariff
• Reuters: Cloudy Germany unlikely hotspot for solar power
• Italy Launches New Solar PV Tariffs
• New Solar Energy Tariffs in Spain
• Europe Has Found a Way to Make Solar Pay by Jeffrey Michel
• OSEA SOC Program Solar Tariff Revisions.pps
• The Aachen Solar Tariff Model
• Ontario's Solar PV Tariff Price Setting
• Links to Real Time Solar Generation
• Germany Installed 1,150 MW of Photovoltaics in 2006 Says Magazine
• Brief Summary of World Solar PV Market Stats 2006
• Dardesheim: Germany's Renewable Energy Town
• The Potential of Solar PV in Ontario, CanSIA, January, 2006
• Solar for Energy Hogs: The California Example by Steven Letendre, Prometheus Institute
• Strom Rebels of Schönau: The Village That Built Their Own Solar Utility
• Josef Pesch-Strom Rebel of Freiburg

  Truck stop solar. Solar PV on tracker at a Shell truck stop near Herbolzheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

• Photon Magazine's Model Solar Photovoltaics Contract under Germany's EEG
• Experience with the German Performance-Based Incentive Program by Gerhard Stryi-Hipp 2004
• The Experience of Germany with Photovoltaic Incentives by Christof Stein, BMFU 2004
• The Effect of the EEG on Photovoltaic Development in Germany by Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, German Solar Industry Association/Bundesverband Solarindustie (BSi) 2004

General Solar Tables

• Ontario Standard Offer Contracts Awarded
• Solar PV OPA RetScreen Calculation (Rev. August 3, 2007)
• Rate of Return Calculation of Solar PV Using @IRATE Function
• Solar Hot Water Systems Tariff Calculation
• German Solar PV Interconnection Procedure

SolarShare Articles

Portions of the following have been developed under a grant from the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of TAF or the City of Toronto.

• TREC's SolarShare Home Page
• SolarShare Press Release: Prefeasibility Stage Complete (doc; 0.5MB)
• SolarShare Final Report (pdf; 0.4MB)
• Cleveland Science Center Solar Portico
• Price Summary for Solar PV Tariffs Worldwide
• German Solar Rate of Return 2006
• German Solar PV for Free Says Walter Fischer
• Fesa B31 Solar Bürgerbeteiligung (Investment)
• Freiburg's Solar Siedlung

SolarShare Tables & Charts

• German Solar PV Installed Price 2006
• Solar PV Current Installed Prices per kW in California & Elsewhere (2007)
• Annual Reoccurring Expenses
• Fesa Freiburg Solar B31 Bürgerbeteiligung Cash Flow
• Stuttgart School Roof Top Bürgerbeteiligung
• Ecovision's Stuttgart School Solar PV Funds
• Solar Radiation & Yields on Tilted Surface
• Solar Energy Cash Flow Tables by Paul Gipe
• Solar Cost Calculator Using Chabot-BSi-Rate Methods
• Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative's SolarShare, Community Power Photovoltaic Project Analysis

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