Trends of Research and Dissemination for PV Systems in Korea

Author

Song, Jinsoo ; Kim, Donghwan

Author_Institution

Korea Inst. of Energy Res., Daejeon

Volume

2

fYear

2006

fDate

38838

Firstpage

2268

Lastpage

2271

Abstract

Korea strategically selected PV as one of the major renewable energy technologies and thus rapidly expanded PV program both for R&D and dissemination since 2004. The Korean Government established Korean Photovoltaic Development Organization in 2004 and commissioned it with planning and managing R&D program. The R&D program focuses on manufacturing technologies necessary for reducing the system cost and improving the reliability. Dissemination continued to grow with a strong feed-in tariff program, public building obligatory installation program, and renewable portfolio agreement programs as well as the existing subsidy programs. It is tentatively decided that about 6 MW of PV was installed in 2005, a 140% increase from 2.5 MW in 2004

Keywords

cost reduction; photovoltaic power systems; power system economics; power system management; power system reliability; research and development management; tariffs; 6 MW; Korean Government; Korean Photovoltaic Development Organization; PV systems; R&D program; dissemination; feed-in tariff program; manufacturing technologies; public building obligatory installation program; renewable energy technologies; renewable portfolio agreement programs; system cost reduction; system reliability; Chemical technology; Costs; Government; Manufacturing; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Renewable energy resources; Research and development; Semiconductor thin films; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, Conference Record of the 2006 IEEE 4th World Conference on

Conference_Location

Waikoloa, HI

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0017-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCPEC.2006.279625

Filename

4060129