Abstract
PV leasing-whereby an energy service company owns and maintains photovoltaic systems installed at the site of the client-helps customers overcome high initial costs and after-sales issues. This business structure also offers the industry significant opportunities for accumulating and analyzing data on PV component and system reliability. Companies seeking to serve the huge developing country market for small, stand-alone PV systems can take advantage of the increased market penetration of the leasing, or fee-for-service, offering and the access to reliability data inherent in such an operation for design optimization during scale-ups. SOLUZ, Inc. has offered fee-for-service to rural customers since 1994 and by late 1998 was serving 2000 customers in target areas within two developing country markets. Its experiences offer insight into the reliability data collection and analysis potential through fee-for-service and the importance of the data for improving PV system performance and component longevity.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callMore From: Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications
Disclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
