Residential Solar Energy Adoption in a Community Context: Perceptions and Characteristics of Potential Adopters in a West Toronto Neighbourhood

Residential Solar Energy Adoption in a Community Context: Perceptions and Characteristics of Potential Adopters in a West Toronto Neighbourhood

In the summer of 2007, a single neighbourhood in downtown Toronto contributed at least 13 percent of all residential grid???tie solar photovoltaic (PV) systems sold in the Canadian province of Ontario. On average, PV purchaser households produced 37 percent as much electricity as they consumed....

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Main Author: Sherk, Theodore
Language:en
Published: 2012
Subjects:
community solar energy
diffusion of innovations
toronto
integrated
social
technical
sustainable energy
renewable energy
community-based social marketing
CBSM
diffusion of innovations theory
DOI
integrated research
integrated management
participatory research
mixed methods
quantitative
qualitative
residential solar energy
photovoltaic
photovoltaics
solar hot water
domestic solar hot water systems
residential solar PV
community energy
community power
ecological reform
case study
Ontario
Greater Toronto Area
feed-in tariff
renewable energy standard offer program
RESOP
electrical utility data
Our Power
Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative
electricity system
distributed energy
distributed renewable energy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6528

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