This article appears in the Spring 2020 issue of Energy Futures, the magazine of the MIT Energy Initiative. Benefits of solar photovoltaic energy generation outweigh the costs, according to new research from the MIT Energy Initiative.
Annual benefit is the amount that is saved by generating electricity by a solar PV system. The amount of money saved is the amount it would have cost if the number of units generated by the PV system would have been taken from the grid supply.
The economic benefits of agrivoltaics are mainly determined by the amount of electricity in the grid and the price in the grid of the PV system. Of course, the grid connection of PV system generation will also generate a series of taxes, such as value-added tax, enterprise income tax, etc.
If the total cost decreases enough, the cost of photovoltaic power generation will be greatly reduced. According to the analysis of this article, the investment in construction has a greater impact on the cost of photovoltaic power generation and the apple orchard, while the interest expenditure has a smaller impact.
Therefore, resource endowment has a great impact on solar PV power generation. The stronger the solar radiation, the more obvious the benefits of the project. Moreover, the construction quality of the project per se is also the key to the efficient and stable performance of the power station.
The environmental value of energy conservation and emission reduction of PV power generation can be equated to the value of standard coal consumption and the environmental value of pollutant emissions that are avoided by using PV power generation compared to traditional thermal power generation with the same amount of electricity.
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