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May 2007:
New web site available with data from the monitoring of the
JRC Large Photovoltaic Façade. The façade was installed
on the ELSA building in August 1994. At the time of installation it was
the largest photovoltaic installation in the world using amorphous
silicon modules. It has been operating with a few interruptions ever
since, generating a total of over 170 MWh. The external power display
has been inactive for some time, giving rise to the perception that the
system was no longer working. In fact, it has been running almost
continuously since 1994. The longest interruption has been in April and
early May 2007, when a fault in one inverter caused energy production to
stop.
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May 2007:
Open two traineeship positions
in the field of electrical performance of thin film photovoltaic modules
and geographic distribution of PV energy generation
Read more...
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May 2007:
Open job position
(Contract Agent):
Scientific researcher in the field of renewable energy for the
determination of basic performance of photovoltaic modules.
Read more...
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March 2007:
Map of solar electricity potential in Europe
The
European Commission's Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment
and Sustainability, has published a Map of Photovoltaic Solar
Electricity Potential in
the European Subcontinent and neighbouring regions
regions (download
the map).
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March 2007: New version of
PVGIS interactive maps for Europe
We are happy to announce a new version of the PVGIS web applications
for estimating solar radiation and solar energy performance in Europe.
Read more...
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March 2007:
Joint expert meeting of the IEA SHC Task 36 “Solar Resource Knowledge
Management” and FP6 Coordination Action MESoR 12-14 March 2007
Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability hosted 3rd meeting of the Task 36 Solar Resource Knowledge Management of
the collaborative R&D programme Solar Heating and Cooling (SHC),
established within the International Energy Agency (IEA).
Read more...
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February 2007 -
Press
release: The European Solar Test Installation (ESTI) to move its
efforts towards Thin Film Technologies
The ESTI Laboratory of the European Commission's Joint Research
Centre (Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Renewable Energies
Unit) in Ispra, Italy is pleased to announce that it will concentrate
its R&D effort, including Module Qualification, on Thin- Film based
Photovoltaic Modules. It intends to take a proactive and leading role in
Thin Films - gaining more knowledge, solving problems and contributing
to make this new technology market-ready. Consequently, as from 1 March
2007, ESTI will accept only thin-film photovoltaic modules for testing,
according to IEC 61646, while assuring the completion of all on-going
accepted tests to IEC 61215.
Read more...
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June
2006:
PVGIS supports regional solar energy initiatives: Summer School
WebValley 2006 Three members of our team have been invited by
ITC-irst Trento to participate on the
Summer School WebValley 2006. The main theme of this event is development of a
prototype WebGIS infrastructure for an assessment of solar energy
resource at the building scale for the province of Trento. In a series
of interactive lectures, the group of 24 highly-enthusiastic secondary
school students was given information about the PVGIS project with focus
to development of databases and tools in the GRASS GIS software. The
PVGIS group agreed to collaborate with ITC-irst on sharing and
developing some algorithms and know-how.
Read more...
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November
2005: JRC-IES Joint
Initiative to Increase the Practical Limits of Photovoltaic Conversion
by Utilisation of the Full Solar Spectrum – Europe plays a major role in
the development of the next generation of Photovoltaic Technologies.
On 23 November 2005 the JRC-Ispra hosted a joint workshop on the theme
of new concepts and materials in the development of future generations
of photovoltaic materials. The Workshop, which was a joint initiative of
the JRC RE Unit and the EU 6th Framework Programme, FULLSPECTRUM,
brought together over 85 scientists from leading research centres around
the world. Read more and see the
presentations.
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May
2005: Workshop 'Management
of solar electricity systems in distributed energy generation network' took place in Ispra.
It provided a forum for communication of the ideas related to
exploitation of solar energy resource and management of solar energy
applications with focus to the EU New Member States and Candidate
Countries.
Read more
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December 2004: Workshop 'Solar
Resource from the Local Level to Global Scale in Support of the Resource
Management of Renewable Electricity Generation' took place in Ispra. It
has contributed to the emergence of
interoperable standards in accordance to the
GEOSS
objectives tailored to renewable electricity generation.
Read more
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September
2004:
With the newly awarded status
of Accredited Calibration Laboratory, the European Solar Test
Installation (ESTI) has been confirmed as the European Reference
Point for the verification
of all solar photovoltaic
electricity systems.
See the JRC
press
release.
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June 2004:
European Commission reports on the
status of renewable
energies in the EU Member
States. As part of the commission
action plan for renewables a periodic review of the situation of
renewable energies implementation and the verification of national
targets and achievements is foreseen in the directive 2001/77/EC The
first situation of the advancement towards the community targets of 22%
Electricity from renewable energy sources has been published. The
summary document is available on line and more info is available at
Europa.
