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BoS costs: status and optimization to reach industrial grid parity

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, 2013
ABSTRACTIt is essential to have a complete system overview to optimize photovoltaic (PV) power plants and minimize balance of system (BoS) costs. The described approach leads to a competitive system solution with lower levelized cost of energy (LCoE).
Ringbeck, S., Sutterlueti, J.
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Grid parity in the Italian commercial and industrial electricity market

2013 International Conference on Clean Electrical Power (ICCEP), 2013
The Italian photovoltaic market is since 2011 the world's largest and represents a success story having attained grid parity for the commercial and industrial (C&I) market of electricity. In this paper, the Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE) is calculated for three representative locations in Northern, Central, and Southern Italy, and compared with the C ...
Alessandro Massi Pavan, Vanni Lughi
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Grid Parity Energy From Ammonia Fuel Cell

ADIPEC, 2023
Abstract Ammonia is a dense energy carrier with high energy density and established supply chain for transport, and storage of hydrogen. Ammonia is a common commodity used in the fertiliser and chemical sector and has a potential to become an affordable and sustainable energy carrier to meet growing demand for industrial decarbonisation.
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Global Overview on Grid-Parity Event Dynamics

2010
Grid-parity is a very important milestone for further photovoltaic (PV) diffusion. A grid-parity model is presented, which is based on levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) coupled with the experience curve approach. Relevant assumptions for the model are given and its key driving forces are discussed in detail.
Breyer, C., Gerlach, A.
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The economic inefficiency of grid parity: The case of German photovoltaics [PDF]

, 2013
Since PV grid paraity has already been achieved in Germany, households are given an indirect financial incentive to invest in PV and battery storage capacities. This paper analyzes the economic consequences of the household's optimization behavior induced by the indirect financial incentive for in-house PV electricity consumption by combining a ...
Jägemann, Cosima, Hagspiel, Simeon, Lindenberger, Dietmar   +2 more
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Efficiency Innovations in Polysilicon Production Accelerate Grid Parity

Open Journal of Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development, 2015
The solar industry is a diversified set of global markets with all manufacturing stages dispersed worldwide, from production of the raw material polysilicon, to the final product of electricity generated by solar modules. However, recent developments within this global value chain, such as the emergence of large low cost manufacturing capacities ...
Vasilij Zubakov, Hasan Makeev, Vladimir Nak   +2 more
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Solar power edges towards grid parity

Physics World, 2009
The largest thin-film solar-power plant in Northern America was opened at the end of December on an 30 hectare site 60 km southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. Built by California-based Sempra Generation, the estimated $40m plant will use 167 000 solar modules of cadmium telluride (CdTe) semiconductors to convert sunlight into electricity.
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Grid parity analysis of solar photovoltaic systems in Europe

International Journal of Ambient Energy, 2013
Photovoltaic (PV) power generation plays an important role in future sustainable energy mixes due to its high reliability, yield predictability and capacity for electricity production during peak demand when the electricity price is usually high. But still today, the economic viability of this technology depends on the subsidies usually granted by ...
Jayanta Deb Mondol, Sascha Klaus Hillenbrand   +1 more
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Global Grid-Parity Dynamics on a National and Regional Level

2012
27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 4467 ...
Gerlach, A., Breyer, C.
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Oerlikon Solar’s Key Performance Drivers to Grid Parity

2010
Oerlikon Solar’s next generation fab, THINFAB, will enable total module production costs of 0.5 €/Wp and a 120 MWp output capacity. The key performance drivers to make solar power economically viable are module efficiency, high productivity of the manufacturing line and low module material costs.
Kratzla, T., Zindel, A., Benz, R.
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