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dc.titleShedding Light on the Unequal Distribution of Residential Solar PV Adoption in Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.contributor.authorChueca, J. Enrique
dc.contributor.authorWeiss, Mariana
dc.contributor.authorCelaya, Rogelio
dc.contributor.authorRavillard, Pauline
dc.contributor.authorTolmasquim, Mauricio
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho Metanias Hallack, Michelle
dc.contributor.orgunitEnergy Division
dc.coverageBrazil
dc.coverageMexico
dc.coverageChile
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2020-12-23T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-12-23T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractLatin America and the Caribbean during the past decade have exponentially expanded their solar installed capacity, with a special emphasis on the rooftop solar photovoltaic systems in the households. These are potential results of incentive policies and regulatory instruments implemented in those countries to foster solar distributed generation. However, with the perspective of massive adoption of solar rooftop systems, the reinforcement of socioeconomic inequalities has been cited as a possible outcome of the current incentive policies. To improve and redesign policies in order to avoid this of distortions it is important to understand who the adopters are under the current institutional framework are and how the adoption of solar is taking place. This empirical analysis is presents evidence to look into whether the incentive policies ensure that solar generation can be adopted by many households and avoid being concentrated in a few early adopters of the technology. With this purpose it seeks to identify (i) the geospatial distribution of solar and (ii) how has the solar situation evolved since regulators permitted these installations in Mexico, Chile, and Brazil using socioeconomic data, electricity pricing, and the complete geolocated census of PV installations in these countries.
dc.format.extent80
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002969
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Shedding-Light-on-the-Unequal-Distribution-of-Residential-Solar-PV-Adoption-in-Latin-America-and-the-Caribbean.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectSolar Energy
dc.subjectResidential Energy Consumption
dc.subjectEnergy Transition
dc.subjectEnergy Distribution
dc.subjectSolar Cell
dc.subject.jelcodeO33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences • Diffusion Processes
dc.subject.jelcodeL52 - Industrial Policy • Sectoral Planning Methods
dc.subject.jelcodeL94 - Electric Utilities
dc.subject.jelcodeD63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
dc.subject.keywordsEconomic Development;Inequality;Solar Energy;Energy Transition;Solar generation;Rooftop Solar;Residential Adoption;Self-Generation;Geospatial
dc.typeMonographs
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-MG-00886
idb.operationRG-E1625
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