Full Title: How Much Do Local Regulations Matter? Exploring the Impact of Permitting and Local Regulatory Processes on PV Prices in the United States
Author(s): Jesse Burkhardt, Ryan Wiser, Naïm Darghouth, C.G. Dong, Joshua Huneycut
Publisher(s): University of California, Berkeley, United States Department of Energy, Yale University, and University of Texas, Austin
Publication Date: September 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):
This paper statistically isolates the impacts of city-level permitting and other local regulatory processes on residential PV prices in the U.S. by combining data from two “scoring” mechanisms that independently capture local regulatory process efficiency with the largest dataset of installed PV prices in the United States. Our dataset also utilizes a rich set of installation level control variables that allows us to better explain PV price variations in general.