Photovoltaics research and development in EU New Member and Candidate States

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Photovoltaics research and development in EU
NewMember and Candidate States

• Stanislaw M. PIETRUSZKO
• PV-NAS-NET Co-ordinator
• Warsaw University of Technology
• POLAND

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Content

• Overview of the PV situation in the EU New Member
  States
• PV support mechanisms in the EU new Member States
• Successes, challenges, needs

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Status of Photovoltaics in the Newly Associated
States

• Organization of PV RTD and demo activities
• Stakeholders involved in RTD
• Scientific potential of NAS PV community
• PV activities carried out in NAS countries
• PV policies and support mechanisms
• Achievements and barriers, challenges and needs
  to the development of PV

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Installed PV power
EU Countries population 376 mio. area
3.2 mio. km2 PV installed 588 MW incl.
CHE and NOR
8 New EU Countries plus Bulgaria and
Romania population 106 mio. area
1.8 mio. km2 PV installed 0.7 MW
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Installed PV power
Total installed power (kW)
Total installed power/capita
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Number of staff in the research
institutionsworking in the field of PV RTD
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Funds for PV RTD and demonstration/dissemination
(1996-2003)
Total (14 Mio Euro)
Per capita
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Total funding of the European Commission(1996
2003)
Total funding (thousands of EUR) (5,3 mio EUR)
Total funding/capita (EUR/capita)
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Industry PV activities in NAS
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RES share in 10 Newly Associated Countries-
status and goals
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RES support mechanisms in EU new members
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SUCCESSES

• high intellectual potential
• establishing Centres of Excellence
• international networking
• increasing number of demonstration projects
• increasing number of off-grid systems
• Sun to Schools in Czech Republic
• Development of Photovoltaics for Energy Needs
  in Poland

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CHALLENGES

• Obligations arising from White Paper (12 RES)
  and Directive 2001/77/EC (22,1 E-RES) in 2010
• enlargement of the EU by 10 states
• dedicated support for PV throughout the whole
  Europe
• improvement of the coherence of New Members and
  EU PV RTD activities on PV

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BARRIERS

• absence of clear strategy on RES development
• Low awarness of solar option - PV is at the end
  of RES
• die hard prejudices
• weak national RTD funding
• lack of the real PV market
• strong fossil fuels lobby

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CONCLUSIONS

• photovoltaics may develop in NAS
• awareness should be increased in society and
  among the key decision makers.
• the legal and market framework should be
  developed and strengthened
• NMS can effectively deploy their potential and
  contribute to corroborate and extend the European
  leadership in the advanced technologies research
  and industry.

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PV-NAS-NET FP5 contract no ENK5-CT-2002-80646

• Improvement of the coherence of NAS activities
  and EU PV RTD programmes on photovoltaics
• Formulation of the recommendations for PV RTD
  programming in NAS and EC

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PARTICIPANTS
Poland - Warsaw Univ. of Technology
(WUT) Bulgaria - Lab. of Solar Energy and
New Energy Sources (CL
SENES) Czech Rep. - SOLARTEC Estonia -
Tallinn Technical Univ. (TTU) Hungary -
Solart-System Ltd. Latvia - Inst. of
Physical Energetics (IPE LAS) Lithuania -
Semiconductor Physics Institute (SPI) Romania
- Romanian (National) Agency for Renewable
Energy (NARE) Slovakia - Slovak Univ. of
Technology (SUT) Slovenia - Energy
Restructuring Agency (APE) Netherlands - Novem
B.V. Swizerland - NET Ltd Austria -
Arsenal Greece - CRES Finland
- NAPS
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