PV applications in Australia

Author

Watt, Muriel

Author_Institution

Centre for Photovoltaic Devices & Syst., Univ. of New South Wales, NSW, Australia

fYear

1996

fDate

13-17 May 1996

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

24

Abstract

For a vast, sparsely populated continent like Australia, effective remote area telecommunications, power supplies, navigation aids and transport route signalling are critical and expensive. PV provides an attractive alternative to diesel and central grid supplies for maintaining these links. Over the last 10 years, another PV market has developed in water pumping and in remote electricity supply. Solar car races have also generated significant public interest in PV and created an important market for high efficiency cells. The PV market in Australia is now entering another phase, with growing interest in grid connection. The author describes how this market is set to expand rapidly due to technical advances, cost reductions, a strong push towards environmentally friendly energy supplies and active electricity utility interest

Keywords

electricity supply industry; photovoltaic power systems; power system interconnection; project engineering; solar cell arrays; solar cells; solar power stations; Australia; PV market expansion; PV power systems; applications; electricity utility; environmental concerns; grid-connection; Australia; Batteries; Continents; Inverters; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Navigation; Photovoltaic systems; Power supplies; Solar power generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1996., Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0160-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3166-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1996.563938

Filename

563938