A business environment analysis model for renewable solar energy

With the reduction in fossil fuels and their environmental impacts, the use of solar cells as green energies in various countries is expanding. It is certainly neither effective nor necessarily possible to generalize a single specific model for different countries considering their different conditions. Therefore, this study, with the aim of providing a business environment analysis model for the third-generation solar energy market in Iran, first, used a systematic search by using the meta-synthesis method to extract important factors. Thirty-four variables in eight dimensions were found to be effective in the solar energy business in Iran. Then, an interpretive structural modeling was provided to derive a priority diagram. Finally, the causal graph and the stock and flow diagram were drawn and the behavior of the variables was examined under three scenarios. The results indicated that using solar cells to generate electricity is economically efficient in the long run and can help to protect the environment.