{"id":779,"date":"2018-07-19T09:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/drivers-and-diffusion-of-residential-photovoltaics-in-france\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T09:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T07:29:55","slug":"drivers-and-diffusion-of-residential-photovoltaics-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/drivers-and-diffusion-of-residential-photovoltaics-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers and diffusion of residential photovoltaics in france"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This paper analyses the diffusion of residential solar panels in France, and the impact of financial incentives (feed-in tariffs and local subsidies) on this dynamics. We use a unique database provided by Enedis, the main French DSO, giving the number of connection requests for 33,842 municipalities and 31 quarters, from the end of 2008 to mid-2016. Using solar irradiance, panel system costs, and national and local subsidies, we compute an internal rate of return per municipality and per quarter, which serves as an indicator for projects&rsquo; profitability. Due to the high number of zero-installation data points, we adopt a two-stage (&amp;quot;hurdle&amp;quot;) methodology. We first model the probability of having at least one installation, and then the (strictly positive) number of installations, the vast majority of which are 3-kW panels. Controlling for individual characteristics of the municipalities, we find that financial incentives have had a positive and significant effect on both the probability and the number of adoptions. Furthermore, we show that the diffusion process exhibits &amp;quot;epidemic&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;stock&amp;quot; effects, which are consistent with the &amp;quot;S&amp;quot;-shaped diffusion curve observed at the national and regional levels. Considering only epidemic effects, we show that an additional past installation in a city has the same effect as a one-point increase of the IRR, that is, an increase of the odds of installing at least one solar panel by roughly 10%. Hence, better informing households could help promote renewables at a lower cost. This could be done for example through more implication of citizens at the local level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This paper analyses the diffusion of residential solar panels in France, and the impact of financial incentives [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-papers","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceem-dauphine.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}