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DOI	10.1038/s41893-018-0204-z
	Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity
	Sunter D.A.; Castellanos S.; Kammen D.M.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	71
结束页码	76
卷号	2 期号:1
英文摘要	The rooftop solar industry in the United States has experienced dramatic growth—roughly 50% per year since 2012, along with steadily falling prices. Although the opportunities this affords for clean, reliable power are transformative, the benefits might not accrue to all individuals and communities. Combining the location of existing and potential sites for rooftop photovoltaics (PV) from Google’s Project Sunroof and demographic information from the American Community Survey, the relative adoption of rooftop PV is compared across census tracts grouped by racial and ethnic majority. Black- and Hispanic-majority census tracts show on average significantly less rooftop PV installed. This disparity is often attributed to racial and ethnic differences in household income and home ownership. In this study, significant racial disparity remains even after we account for these differences. For the same median household income, black- and Hispanic-majority census tracts have installed less rooftop PV compared with no majority tracts by 69 and 30%, respectively, while white-majority census tracts have installed 21% more. When correcting for home ownership, black- and Hispanic-majority census tracts have installed less rooftop PV compared with no majority tracts by 61 and 45%, respectively, while white-majority census tracts have installed 37% more. The social dispersion effect is also considered. This Analysis reveals the racial and ethnic injustice in rooftop solar participation. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Housing; Census tracts; Demographic information; Dispersion effect; Hispanics; Household income; Photovoltaics; Potential sites; Solar industries; Surveys
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163506
作者单位	Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States; Berkeley Institute for Data Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; California Institute for Energy and Environment, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States; Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, Mexico; Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sunter D.A.,Castellanos S.,Kammen D.M.. Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity[J],2019,2(1).
APA	Sunter D.A.,Castellanos S.,&Kammen D.M..(2019).Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity.Nature Sustainability,2(1).
MLA	Sunter D.A.,et al."Disparities in rooftop photovoltaics deployment in the United States by race and ethnicity".Nature Sustainability 2.1(2019).