European Technology and Innovation Platform on Photovoltaics
ETIP PV
ETIP PV is the only independent pan-European organisation to support highest value solar PV-related knowledge generation, further development and deployment of PV technology, and the strengthening of its European sector.
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Lobbying Activity
Response to Implementing Act on non-price criteria in renewable energy auctions
19 Feb 2025
The sharing of detailed, high-quality operational data from PV plants would enable companies and researchers developing monitoring tools or plant optimisation tools to test and improve their algorithms. We see opportunity in this NZIA Implementing Regulation to promote the idea of sharing by encouraging Member States to call for operational data sharing as a requirement (or bonus) in some auctions for public RES support. The idea should be introduced softly softly to the PV deployment industry. By focusing on Art 26 auctions we limit, for now, the scope of auctions to which it would be applied to give time for the idea to become familiar and for the conviction that sharing will be compensated to embed.
Read full responseResponse to Recommendation to promote the development of innovative forms of solar energy deployment
2 Apr 2024
The ETIP PV welcomes the opportunity to provide inputs to solve the barriers that prevent the market uptake of innovative photovoltaics applications. Building Integrated PV, AgriPV, Floating PV (onshore and inshore), Infrastructure integrated PV and Vehicle integrated PV still require significant R&I progress to reach their potential. However, most of the barriers to market uptake are non-technical, often related to regulation or permitting (with integrated PV application not falling neatly in a case or another), business models related or linked to standards. The inherent modularity of photovoltaics (PV) facilitates seamless integration into diverse objects and surroundings, optimising space utilisation. Innovative forms of PV solutions, identified in the EU Solar Energy Strategy, will play an increasingly important role alongside traditional ground-mounted and rooftop installations to meet EU Solar Energy Target of 600 GW of PV deployed by 2030. The EU Solar Energy Strategy identified five types of innovative forms of deployment that either allow for multiple use of space (agriPV, floating PV, transport infrastructure PV) or are integrated with other products (building-integrated PV and vehicle-integrated PV). Integrated PV solutions face several barriers to their development across EU Member States. To help address these barriers the European Commission is developing a Guidance for Member States to promote innovative forms of solar energy deployment and Commission Recommendation. This initiative aims to identify barriers and their solutions and thus, accelerate the deployment of integrated PV in Europe and contribute to reaching the EUs solar deployment targets. The Commission is initiating crucial support for the advancement of these technologies and acknowledging the benefits they bring, particularly in terms of land use and environmental sustainability. The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) aims to actively support achieving the EUs green energy policy goals. Through its regularly updated Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), the ETIP PV identified the main regulatory and non-regulatory barriers to integrated PV deployment, which need to be considered to pave the way for these forms of solar deployment. While integrated PV solutions are at various degrees of technical maturity, the primary obstacle to market adoption lies not in technology, but in regulatory and socio-economic barriers. Integrated PV is not well known and applications falling in between two categories of products/services often suffer from inadequate representation of their economic, energy, and environmental performance in assessments conducted by economic and social stakeholders.
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