Objective
PV CROPS addresses 3 key objectives of the call topic:
1) Improvement of performance, reliability and lifetime
2) Cost reduction of PV systems
3) Better integration of PV into grid
The 2 first objectives lead to a lower Levelized Cost of Energy, LCoE. So, the main objectives of PV CROPS are:
1- Reduction of 30% of the LCoE of PV to achieve 0.14-0.07 €/kWh by 2020 and 0.20–0.09 €/kWh by 2015 and an increase of 9% in the performance ratio of PV systems
2- Enhancement of the grid integration of PV by mitigating PV power fluctuations and integrating energy management and storage to allow 30% of PV penetration by 2020
The objectives are attained through 5 fields of work.
1) Robust modelling, advanced simulation and design optimization: through an open source, simulation and design toolbox incorporating built-in learning tools
2) Prediction of system output with respect to solar resource, local weather and system behaviour: including prediction and mitigation of PV power fluctuations
3) Integration of energy management and storage strategies: using innovative batteries and allowing PV to participate in the secondary regulation of the grid.
4) Monitoring, real time follow-up and advanced diagnoses of performance: providing performance analyses including the detection of hidden problems reducing operational costs.
5) Hardware, software and contractual solutions for field and laboratory testing: developing kit solutions for the commissioning of PV plants and BIPV.
PV CROPS includes 19 results: technical documents, toolbox solutions, technology development, databases, training and spin-offs. The results will be validated on a wide set of EU PV systems, and in one of the biggest PV plants in EU and one of the biggest one in the world under project in Morocco.
The results will lead to the following quantified impacts:
30% LCoE reduction
9% Performance Ratio increase
Reduction of PV power fluctuations to less than 10% in 10 min to allow 30% of PV penetrati
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy photovoltaic
- engineering and technology civil engineering architecture engineering sustainable architecture sustainable building
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FP7-ENERGY-2012-1-2STAGE
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Coordinator
28040 MADRID
Spain
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