Chapter 5 Conclusion and Recommendation
5.3 Limitations
Because all of the policies are for total renewable energy, it is difficult to separate the solar energy from them, and the author has to collect the data by calculating the public government’s data from. Furthermore, the development of renewable energy began in about 2009, and it is the minimum of the development before 2008. Therefore, the choice of indicators and the data collected of each variable have a certain degree of difficulty in this study.
Because of the willingness to install is difficult to measure and the secondary data is difficult to collect, the study based on other literature.
The study did not discuss the factors of export, the effect of other alternative fuel, the learning and growth dimension of solar energy industry and the electric price. Therefore, the relationship between the two variables is not obviously related. It may necessary to find out other related variables to link with. The study maybe ignores the others variables in the solar energy development.
5.4 Suggestions for Future Research
Because the development of solar energy began in the past three years, the secondary data is too difficult to collect.Based on the limitations of this study, the author suggested that the future researchers can amend the model, the
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design and the application of this study in detailed, such as the R & D staff input and generate efficiency etc.
On the other hand, the author cannot guarantee and confirm that whether the development trend in the real environment is consistent with our simulation.
Thus, the future researchers can try to test, verify and compare the real development of this industry with the simulation result of this study.
Finally, because of the time limitation, the installed willingness is measured by another literature. Maybe the future researchers can try to use the questionnaires or interviews to measure the installed willingness more accurately.
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Appendix I
The Data and Sources of Indicators
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 Data Source
53 67 81 67 88 02 10 25 11 50 Table of Feed-in
Tarrif (NT dollars)
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 10.138
2
Taipower
Table of Capacity Installed (Kw)
100 200 300 500 600 1000 1400 2400 5600 9500 Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic A
ffairs Table of Output
(Kw)
2000 4000 8000 17000 39000 88000 170000 377000 854000 150300 0
Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic A
ffairs
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Appendix II
The FIT of Solar Energy
Type Classification Level of Installed Capacity The FIT Rate (2009)
Solar Energy
ROOF 1Kw~10Kw 10.3185
10Kw~100Kw 9.1799
100Kw~500Kw 8.8241
500Kw 7.9701
Ground 1Kw~ 7.3297
Appendix III
The Cost Structure of Solar PV System
Items Specific Weight Items Specific Weight
Solar Energy Cells Module
35％
Converter5％
Structure of System
10％
Monitoring System10％
Distribution Materials
5％
Administrative Expenses5％
Design and Construction
12.5％
Tax5％
Labor Costs