• DocumentCode
    602139
  • Title

    Has Europe a need for solar plants in Africa?

  • Author

    Muntwyler, U.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. Eng. & Inf. Technol., Bern Univ. of Appl. Sci. (BUAS), Burgdorf, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    27-30 March 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EVER.2013.6521529
  • Filename
    6521529