Imperial College London
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Dr Paul Westacott

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences

Visiting Researcher
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6781paul.westacott09 Website

 
 
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131213 Prince's GardensSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

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@article{Westacott:2016:10.3390/en9010026,
author = {Westacott, P and Candelise, C},
doi = {10.3390/en9010026},
journal = {Energies},
title = {A Novel Geographical Information Systems Framework to Characterize Photovoltaic Deployment in the UK: Initial Evidence},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en9010026},
volume = {9},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Globally, deployment of grid-connected photovoltaics (PV) has increased dramatically inrecent years. The UK has seen rapid uptake reaching over 500,000 installations totalling 2.8 GWpby 2013. PV can be installed in different market segments (domestic rooftop, non-domestic rooftopand ground-mounted “solar-farms”) covering a broad range of system sizes in a high number oflocations. It is important to gain detailed understanding of what grid-connected PV deploymentlooks like (e.g., how it deployed across different geographic areas and market segments), and identifythe major drivers behind it. This paper answers these questions by developing a novel geographicalinformation systems (GIS)-framework—the United Kingdom Photovoltaics Database (UKPVD)—toanalyze temporal and spatial PV deployment trends at high resolution across all market segments.Results show how PV deployment changed over time with the evolution of governmental PVpolicy support. Then spatial trends as function of local irradiation, rurality (as a proxy of buildingand population density) and building footprint (as a proxy for roof-area) are analyzed. We findin all market segments, PV deployment is strongly correlated with the level of policy support.Furthermore, all markets show a preference to deploy in rural areas and those with higher irradiation.Finally, local clustering of PV in all market segments was observed, revealing that PV is not spreadevenly across areas. This work reveals the complex nature of PV deployment, both spatially and bymarket segment, reinforcing the need capture this through mapping.
AU  - Westacott,P
AU  - Candelise,C
DO  - 10.3390/en9010026
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1996-1073
TI  - A Novel Geographical Information Systems Framework to Characterize Photovoltaic Deployment in the UK: Initial Evidence
T2  - Energies
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en9010026
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/28825
VL  - 9
ER  -
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