A Domestic Model for Environmental Analyses of Solar Cells Industries in Iran

Solar energy is one of the most important green energy resources nowadays and has been widely used due to its less environmental impacts and cost effectiveness. Yet implementing it for the first time requires collaboration among various macro and micro infrastructures within a country. In this study we have extracted the most important factors mentioned in the recent 23 studies in solar cells commercialization and affecting parameters in Iran. These factors were then classified into 8 major dimensions based on the theme they fit in and aided by environmental analysis models such as Daft’s and PESTEL. The 8 dimensions are found to be political, legal, technological, economic, environmental, human resource, market and social. These dimensions along with their factors were validated based on experts’ opinions and has been presented in a conceptual model as well.