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New Report Grid Integration

Task 14 has published a report about Best Practices for high penetration PV on islands

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New NSR National Survey Reports

Task 1 has published 2 new National Survey Reports about PV in China and Japan in 2020

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Prizes & Awards Becquerel prize

Congratulations to Ulrike Jahn. The actual Operating Agent of Task 13 is the  well-deserved winner of the Becquerel prize 2021.

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Highlight Annual Report

The Annual Report 2020 highlights the IEA PVPS activities & accomplishments  from last year

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Highlight Market Report

The Snapshot of Global PV Markets developed by Task 1 is out. A synthetic view of what happened in the PV world last year.

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Highlitght Built Integrated PV

Successful Building Integration of Photovoltaics – The new book of Task 15  or How to be inspired by a collection af great international BIPV projects

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New Report Performance & Reliability

Task 13 has published a report about Climatic Rating of Photovoltaic Modules

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New Report Performance & Reliability

Task 13 has published a report about Uncertainties in Yield Assessments and PV LCOE.

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Latest publications

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The IEA PVPS TCP regularly publishes assorted reports, articles, and Recommended Practices based on the research activities of the various tasks. Find here the latest publications that help to improve development and deployment within the solar energy sector.

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TASK — 17

State of the Art & Expected Benefits of PV-Powered Vehicles

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TASK — 13

Service Life Estimation for Photovoltaic Modules

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TASK — 12

Methodological Guidelines on Net Energy Analysis of Photovoltaic Electricity, 2nd Ed.

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TASK — 13

Qualification of PV Power Plants using Mobile Test Equipment

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TASK — 13

Designing New Materials for Photovoltaics

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TASK — 13

Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules and Systems

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TASK — 13

Assessment of Performance Loss Rate of PV Power Systems

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TASK — 13

Performance of New Photovoltaic System Designs

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Snapshot 2021

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TASK — 13

Climatic Rating of Photovoltaic Modules

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TASK — 13

Uncertainties in Yield Assessments and PV LCOE

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TASK — 1 14

Data Model and Data Acquisition for PV registration schemes and grid connection

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TASK — 14

Communication and Control for High PV Penetration under Smart Grid Environment

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TASK — 12

Environmental LCA of Residential PV and Battery Storage Systems

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TASK — 12

Methodology Guidelines on Life Cycle Assessment of Photovoltaic 2020

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TASK — 16

Regional solar power forecasting 2020

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TASK — 15

Development of BIPV Business Cases – Guide for stakeholders

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Trends in PV applications 2020

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Activities

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Webinar
17 September 2021 - 16:00 - 17:30 CEST

Solar Resource Measurement Workshop

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Webinar
30 September 2021 - 09:00 - 13:00 CET

Focus Workshop on Operation & Maintenance

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Conference
05 › 06 October 2021

Intersolar Europe : IEA PVPS Workshops

Munich, Germany
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OUR MISSION

Facilitate the role of photovoltaic solar energy as a cornerstone in the transition to sustainable energy systems

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The IEA Photovoltaic Power Systems Programme (PVPS) is one of the collaborative R&D Agreements established within the IEA and, since its establishment in 1993, the PVPS participants have been conducting a variety of joint projects in the application of photovoltaic conversion of solar energy into electricity.

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