Approach to estimating private sector investment in research and development for active solar heating and cooling systems

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5421230

Gordon, J J

In support of the US Department of Energy's Office of Solar Heat Technologies, MITRE developed an approach to estimating the amount of funding private industry may be willing to invest in solar R and D. This report presents a review of the characteristics of privately funded R and D in the US and a discussion of R and D project selection techniques in the private sector. Implications for privately funded solar R and D are discussed, and the approach to estimating private sector solar R and D expenditures presented, using R and D on evacuated tube solar collectors as an illustration. The approach developed uses a variant of net present value analysis. This methodology is particularly useful for assessing whether R and D funding of solar energy systems will be profitable from a private sector decision making point of view.

• Research Organization: Mitre Corp., McLean, VA (USA). METREK Div.
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-81CS30630
• OSTI ID: 5421230
• Report Number(s): DOE/CS/30630-T1; ON: DE85017408
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140300* -- Solar Energy-- Economic
Industrial
& Business Aspects
141000 -- Solar Collectors & Concentrators
ECONOMICS
EQUIPMENT
EVACUATED COLLECTORS
EVACUATED TUBE COLLECTORS
EXPENDITURES
FINANCING
INDUSTRY
MANUFACTURING
MARKET
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SOLAR COLLECTORS
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
SOLAR INDUSTRY