Title :
Has Europe a need for solar plants in Africa?
Author_Institution :
Dept. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Bern Univ. of Appl. Sci. (BUAS), Burgdorf, Switzerland
Abstract :
The price/performance ratio of PV installations has drastically improved past the last years. PV installations in mid-Europe now produce cheaper than installations in southern Europe. At elevated sites like the European Alps, PV installations are now nearly as productive as installations in southern Europe / northern Africa. Solar power stations constructed in southern Europe should hence no longer feed northern Europe but rather local consumers in southern Europe and northern Africa.
Keywords :
photovoltaic power systems; power generation economics; pricing; solar power stations; European Alps; PV installations; mid-Europe; northern Africa; price-performance ratio; solar plants; solar power stations; southern Europe; Artificial neural networks; Europe; 2-axis trackers; Solar power plants; energy storage; photovoltaic price; pump storage;
Conference_Titel :
Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER), 2013 8th International Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Monte Carlo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-5269-7
DOI :
10.1109/EVER.2013.6521529