Objective
THE 16 PHOTOVOLTAIC PILOT PLANTS,CO-FINANCED BY THE COMMISSION,CONSTITUTE A UNIQUE GROUP IN EUROPE.THEY ARE PARTICULARY APPROPRIATE AS A BASIS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THIS TECHNOLOGY.FOLLOW-UP ACTIVITIES TO PRESERVE THE TECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF THE PV PILOT PLANTS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED.THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE TO BE COORDINATED AND CONTROLLED IN THE FRAME OF THIS CONTRACT.
Work has been conducted on the technical coordination and control of photovoltaic power plant investigations.
Key activities and accomplishments were as follows:
compilation of a detailed list of lessons learned and its dissemination to ongoing studies;
coordination with individual pilot plant study leaders to make use of the more important results from other ongoing work;
resolution of common problems in the areas of batteries, charge control, plant monitoring and solar irradiance sensors;
provision of advice to plants which were incorporating new data acquisition systems, and improved performance analysis and presentation techniques;
development of innovative mathematical models such as available photovoltaic array power and energy calculations.
As a result of this coordination, many individual plants have improved their capability to analyze and report their plant performance data, and many have incorporated improved monitoring and data reporting techniques.
Several plants have converted their operational mode into mostly grid connected operation, although they have retained their capability to operatein stand alone mode. This change has improved the plant's solar energy conversion efficiency and photovoltaic array utilization.
WIP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TECHNICAL SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OF ALL PV PLANT PROJECTS NUMBERING 25, IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THE RESPECTIVE PROJECT LEADERS. THEIR PRINCIPAL TASKS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
- REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION AND PROGRESS OF VARIOUS PROJECTS FROM PROPOSAL STAGES THROUGH THEIR COMPLETION, INCLUDING CONTRACTOR'S REPORTS SUBMITTED TO CEC.
- PROVIDING TECHNICAL IMPROVEMENT AND COST REDUCTION RECOMMENDATIONS USEFUL TO ALL PROJECTS IN A TIMELY MANNER.
- PREPARATION AND SUBMITTAL OF SPECIAL REPORTS TO THE COMMISSION, AS REQUIRED.
- PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSION FOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND FURTHER TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTS.
KEY ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 1988 ARE THE FOLLOWING: 1) COMPILED A DETAILED LIST OF LESSONS LEARNED AND DISSEMINATED THEM TO ON-GOING PROJECTS, 2) COORDINATED WITH THE INDIVIDUAL PLANT PROJECT LEADERS TO MAKE USE OF SOME OF THE MORE IMPORTANT RESULTS OF THE ON-GOING CONCERTED ACTION PROJECTS, 3) RESOLVED MANY COMMON PROBLEMS IN THE AREAS OF BATTERY, CHARGE CONTROL, PLANT MONITORING, AND SOLAR IRRADIANCE SENSOR, AND 4) WORKED CLOSELY WITH SEVERAL PLANTS WHICH WERE INCORPORATING NEW DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS TO INSTALL MUCH IMPROVED PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES AND SUBSEQUENT DATA PRESENTATION APPROACHES.
A SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT IS THAT MANY INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS ARE NOW CAPABLE OF, OR IN MUCH BETTER POSITION THAN BEFORE IN ANALYZING THEIR OWN PLANT PERFORMANCE DATA. FURTHER MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS IN PLANT PERFORMANCE, OPERATION, AND MONITORING HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTED, NOTABLY AMONG THE FOLLOWING PILOT PLANTS: PELLWORM, FOTA, VULCANO, AND ZAMBELLI. MANY OF THE NEW SYSTEMS PROJECTS ARE ALSO INCORPORATING KEY LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE PAST.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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.
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.
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels energy conversion
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics mathematical model
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Germany
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