Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies
Photovoltaics Project
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MIT Energy Laboratory
2006
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| author | Bottaro, Drew |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/351622019-04-09T16:34:39Z Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies Bottaro, Drew Commercial products |x Standards |z United States. Photovoltaics Project Several federal energy programs aim to "commercialize" new energy tech- nologies, i.e., to bring them from research to the market. Product standards and warranties are sometimes a part of these programs. Yet the benefits which the standards and warranties are to achieve are rarely articulated, and how these benefits will be achieved is often even less clear. This article takes the view that the substantive goals of standards and warranties can be articulated. It examines the functions of standards and warranties and the processes which produce them, and casts their effects in terms of impacts upon the new technology's demand, supply and industrial market structure. The relevance of these impacts upon commercialization programs is then discussed, covering the role of standards in the new in- dustry's development, the need for standards and warranties in demonstration projects and in the private financing of new energy systems, and mechanisms for development of standards and warranties. The need for basic research on standards and warranties is then addressed. 2006-12-19T15:59:40Z 2006-12-19T15:59:40Z 1979-11 Technical Report 06349810 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35162 en_US MIT-EL 79-043 2237697 bytes application/pdf application/pdf MIT Energy Laboratory |
| spellingShingle | Commercial products |x Standards |z United States. Bottaro, Drew Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title | Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title_full | Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title_fullStr | Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title_full_unstemmed | Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title_short | Standards, warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| title_sort | standards warranties and commercialization of new energy technologies |
| topic | Commercial products |x Standards |z United States. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35162 |
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