IEA PVPS published its Annual Report on May 26th, 2015. In a solar photovoltaic (PV) market becoming rapidly global, the IEA’s PV technology cooperation programme continues to provide unbiased and reliable information on PV deployment and challenges.
“Electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems has continued to grow all around the globe achieving, for the first time in history, more than 1% of the annual global electricity demand, comments IEA PVPS Chairman Stefan Nowak.
PV has further gained in cost-competitiveness, has become one of the least cost options of renewable electricity
“Although this number may still appear as small, it represents a tremendous development of the past years, much faster than all predictions had forecasted, be it from the IEA all the way to Greenpeace. Along with this important market growth, PV has further gained in cost-competitiveness and has become one of the least cost options of renewable electricity, achieving remarkable levelized costs of electricity as low as below USD 6 cents/kWh in the best cases.”
The report provides concise information about IEA PVPS collaborative projects and member country specific developments.
The recent PV technology, industry and market development and its future prospects are setting the scene for the activities within the IEA PVPS Programme. As a leading and unique network of expertise, IEA PVPS has the mission to cooperate on a global level in this rapidly evolving technology area.
IEA PVPS increasingly focuses on new business models and market related integration of PV in the electricity system
Working on both technical and non-technical issues, IEA PVPS undertakes key collaborative projects related to technology and performance assessment, cost reduction, best practice in various applications, rapid deployment of photovoltaics and key issues such as grid integration and environmental aspects.
Furthermore, in anticipating future needs, IEA PVPS increasingly focuses on new business models, sustainable policy frameworks, as well as technical and market related integration of photovoltaics in the electricity system.
New BIPV task
In 2014, under the leadership of the Netherlands, a new Task 15 on accelerating building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) was decided on by the Executive Committee. Interest and outreach for new membership within IEA PVPS continued in 2014. Thailand has joined IEA PVPS as the 28th member.
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