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\author{Scott Austen Robinson}  	% Required

\address{603 Davis St.\\ Austin, Texas 78701}  % Required

\title{The Solar Energy Consumer Agent Decision (SECAD) Model:
	 Addressing complexity through GIS-integrated agent-based modeling}
                                                 

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\begin{dedication}
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This work is dedicated to my parents, Will Robinson and Maria Katherman for showing me the value of curiosity. 
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I wish to acknowledge the hard work of others in the Energy Systems Transformation Group that made this work possible. Without years worth of survey and program data we would not be in a position to run simulations at this scale and level of detail. I would like to acknowledge the tireless support and guidance of Dr. Varun Rai, whose vision and understanding of the underlying issues was irreplaceable. I would like to thank the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the United States Department of Energy for their support and funding of this research, and Austin Energy, Frontier Associates, the City of Austin, and Travis County for providing data. Finally I would like to acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center for proving the computing power that made city-wide agent simulation possible. 
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This thesis presents a step-by-step implementation of the Solar Energy Consumer Agent Decision (SECAD) model: an empirically-grounded multi-agent model of residential solar photovoltaic (PV) adoption with an integrated geospatial topology. Solar PV diffusion is a complex system with geographic heterogeneity, uncertain information, high financial risk, and important social interaction and feedback effects between consumers. A key limitation for agent-based models in human socio-technical systems is the integration of empirical patterns in the model structure, initialization, and validation efforts. This limitation is addressed though highly granular and interlocking data-streams from the geographic, social network, financial, demographic, and decision-making process of real households in the study. The fitted and validation model is used to simulate implementation of potential policies to inform decision-makers: i) Targeted informational dissemination campaigns,  ii) Tiered rebates, and iii) Alternative rebate schedules. Informational campaigns can increase cumulative installations by as much as 12\%, but vary greatly in their effectiveness based on which agents are targeted. Simulations indicated suggest that the wealth inequality between solar adopters and non adopters could be reduced by 22.6\% on average through a slightly increased rebate amount for low-wealth households. Tiered rebates can allow the utility more control over the locational diffusion patterns with regard to load pockets--a \$0.25 higher offering increased the percentage of adopters in the target area from less than 1\% to over 10\%. Relative to flatter rebate schedules, sharply decreasing schedules are effective in terms of motivating adoption but inefficient in small markets. It is our hope that this work will provide a working example for other agent-based models of human socio-technical systems as well as provide insight into the likely outcomes of novel policy-levers such as those described above.


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%Scott Austen Robinson was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1987, the son of
%Dr. Willard S. Robinson and Maria J. Katherman. He was raised on a ranch outside Douglas, Wyoming. He received the Bachelor
%of Arts degree in Political Science from Middlebury College
%in 2009, conducting research in political forecasting and the nexus of energy and foreign policy. He went on to coach collegiate Crew, work for the Department of Energy in Washington D.C., and for Senator John Barasso (R-WY) in Casper, Wyoming. In 2011 he joined the University of Texas at Austin to complete the dual degree program in Energy and Earth Resources at the Jackson School of Geoscience, and Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School. In 2012 he joined the Energy Systems Transformation Group under Dr. Varun Rai.
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