Upfront Embodied Carbon of PV and Solar Hot Water Systems

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Hopefully you can get the papers from these. The focus is mainly on domestic water heating but they’re not US studies.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2018.03.048

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.12.150 - This one is very thorough

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2017.04.065 - On concentrating solar, so larger scale applications

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2015.03.021

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2014.09.028

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.06.035

Hope that helps :slight_smile:
Ruth

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