Closing the green gap? Changing disparities in residential solar installation and the importance of regional heterogeneity.

ABSTRACT: The push to accelerate the transition to renewable energy sources raises questions about how associated costs and benefits are distributed. The likelihood that individuals and communities benefit from access to solar photovoltaics (PV) may vary systematically, between social groups and across space. The present study leverages high-resolution and uniquely comprehensive data on nearly all residential solar PV installations in New York State to measure disparities (and their trends over time) in PV deployment across three axes: ethno-racial composition, income, and rural-urban status. We identify notable differences in solar PV adoption rates across all three dimensions and show that deployment gaps changed dramatically between 2010 and 2020. White-majority census tracts maintained a substan

SUBMITTER: Dokshin FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11887626 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature