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Overview on IEA PVPS Task 8 Activities

Study on Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems IEA PVPS Workshop 21 January 2009 @ PVSEC-18 Kolkata, India

Task 8 OA Prof. Kosuke KUROKAWA Tokyo Institute of Technology 1

IEA PVPS Task 8

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Solar Pyramid: PV Systems for 21st Century Gobi

1,300,000 km2

Sahara

8,600,000 km2 Total Land Surface Total Earth Surface

IEA PVPS Task 8

Covered by η =14% PV modules

(50% space factor assuming 10 % system energy efficiency) (=107 PWh/y =107×1012kWh/y)

384EJ/year PV Electricity (1 EJ = 1018J)

World Primary Energy Supply In 2002 = 379EJ/year 2

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10 years ago: OUR FUTURE DREAM !

Nowadays: More Realistic !

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Task 8: Study on Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems – VLS-PV 1998 (Task 6 – Subtask 5) 1999 – 2002 Phase I

Energy from the Desert:

Feasibility Study of Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation (VLS-PV) Systems 2003 – 2005 Phase II

Energy from the Desert:

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Practical Proposal for Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems tedC u 2006 – 2008 Phase III tribPVSE 2008 s i r d Energy from the Desert:to be th EUptembe 4 e Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems @ b2urg, Sfor Socio-Economic Developments am H 2009 – 2011 Phase IV

Energy from the Desert:

Practical Project Proposals to Realise Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems (tentative) IEA PVPS Task 8

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Our Dream Team for 21st Century Energy

from Des ert I II

10 countries + 2 observers Japan (OA), Canada, Germany, Israel, Italy, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, U.S.A., Australia, Mongolia (obs.), China (tentative. obs.). IEA PVPS Task 8

2007.9 IEA PVPS Task 8 Milan Meeting 5 5 kurochan 5

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Indicative Generation Cost (USD/kWh) Gobi

Sonora Sahara-Ouarzazate Negev Thar Great sandy

Sahara-Nema

Generation Cost (cent/kwh)

20.0 Module Price 15.0

4$/W 3$/W

10.0

2$/W 1$/W

5.0

0.0 2000 IEA PVPS Task 8

2200 2400 2600 2 Annual Irradiation(kwh/m /year)

2800 6

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Sustainable VLS-PV Development Concept Sustainable State 1.5GW

1600 Installed PV power PV power to supply the grid Power needed to operate the facility

Capacity of PV System [MW]

1400

Local PV Module Factories

1200 1000

50MW module facility

50MW module facility

800

Regional Jobs= 25 700 man⋅Y Induced Production=3.5 times of initial investment

5MW module facility 5MW module facility 5MW module facility 5MW module facility

600

Cumulative amount of end-of-life modules

400

Total production scale of manufacturing facilities

5MW module facility

200

50MW module facility

50MW module facility

0 0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Period [years] IEA PVPS Task 8

Lifetime: PV system=30yrs., facility=10yrs.

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Practical Project Proposals to Realise Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems

Table of contents – Volume III 1. Introduction 2. World energy and environmental issues 3. PV and other renewable energy options 4. Socio-economic considerations 5. Financial aspects 6. Recent and future trends in PV technology 7. Recent trends in MW-scale PV system Installation

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8. Future technical developments for VLS-PV Systems 9. Environmental and ecological impacts of VLS-PV 10. Global potential analysis 11. Case study on the Sahara desert 12. Case study on the Gobi desert 13. VLS-PV Roadmap 14. Conclusions and Recommendations 8

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Mediterranean Case Studies 9

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Middle East Case Studies Technology Country

Static, 300 tilt (TWh y-1)

1-axis tracking (TWh y-1)

2-axis tracking (TWh y-1)

CPV (TWh y-1)

Electricity Production in 2002 (TWh) [2]

Bahrain Cyprus Egypt Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Qatar

43.5 604.3 65,102.4 106,994.4 28,263.4 1,329.6 6,014.9 1,165.4 669.0 13,894.9 748.0

46.3 643.1 69,283.3 113,865.6 30,078.5 1,415.0 6,401.2 1,240.3 712.0 14,787.2 796.0

22.1 306.8 33,048.9 54,315.2 14,347.8 675.0 3,053.4 591.6 339.6 7,053.7 379.7

32.4 450.0 48,478.4 79,673.2 21,046.3 990.1 4,479.0 867.8 498.2 10,346.8 557.0

6.9 3.6 81.3 129.0 34.0 42.7 7.3 32.4 8.1 9.8 9.7

Saudi Arabia

128,222.1

136,456.5

65,091.3

95,480.3

138.2

12,036.9 50,407.7 5,420.4 34,529.2

12,809.9 53,644.9 5,768.4 36,746.7

6,110.5 25,589.2 2,751.6 17,528.6

8,963.2 37,536.0 4,036.3 25,712.1

26.1 123.3 39.3 3.0

Syria Turkey UAE Yemen

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Possible MEDITERRANEAN NETWORK TO GLOBAL NETWORK

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Capacity Trends of MW-scale PV installation 2020end > 6000 MW System Capacity (MW/system) Capacity of PV system [MW/system]

120

100

2010end ≈ 100 MW MW-scale PV system installation in each year

80

60

40

20

0 2001

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2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

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Cumulative MW-scale PV installation

50%

8,000

40%

6,000

30%

4,000

20%

2,000

10%

Cumulativeinstallatoin[MW ]

10,000

0

Ratioof MW -scalePVinstallation

As of the end of 2007 - 724MW: 9.2% of all PV application in IEA-PVPS As of September 2008 - Over 1.7 GW (about 600MW over 10MW-scale PV) - More than 10% by the end of 2008

0% 2002

2003

2004

MW-s cale PV s ys tem s

2005 All applications

2006

2007

Ratio of MW-s cale

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Global Potential Analysis Satellite images Converted to Reflectance Ground Cover Classifications

Feed Back

Rolling Ground Classification

NDVI Data set Vegetation Index

Weight and integrate

Ground Truth IEA PVPS Task 8

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Classification of the Desert into Ground Surface Conditions

Original image Gravel desert

Desert steppe Desert stepe

Sand dune

water

green

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Suitable Area on the world 6 deserts Negev Thar

Gobi Sonora

Sahara Great Sandy n.a.

low

availability

Crop 0.55

Steppe

0.45 0.35

high

Desert 0.25 0.15 NDVIymax

Total 6655×103 km2 Steppe

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Desert 16

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Solar Resource of World Six Deserts in TW Negev Thar Gobi Sonora Sahara Great Sandy n.a.

low

availability

high

Crop 0.55

Steppe Desert 0.45 0.35 0.25 0.15 NDVIymax

Steppe

+

Desert

772 PWh

772 TW in total 5.2 x as much as world energy demand in 2010 or 1.9 x in 2100 17

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Careless Irrigation may cause soil degradation. To assure sustainable agricultural development, A New Approach comes .....

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Agriculture in Sahara - IRA, Tunisia 18 kurochan -

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Our Team proposing ... PV power to agriculture in the desert or RO

Desalinated Water Brine Water

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Expected Environmental Impacts & Potentials of VLS-PV Diffusion of VLS-PV Fossil fuel use Reduction in CO2 emission Increase in CO2 emission

Decrease in fossil fuel consumption Increase in fossil fuel consumption

Increase in non conventional energy use

Climate Climate Change

Stable ecosystem structure and diversity Change in ecosystem structure and diversity

Change mitigation

Decrease in extreme Increase in extreme events (floods, droughts events (floods, droughts fires) fires)

Increased carbon Reduced carbon sequestration sequestration in in soil soil and and woods woods

Biocapacity Biocapacity

Decreased plant Increased plant andand soil soil organisms species organisms species diversity diversity

conservation loss

Soil erosion (loss of nutrients and soil(nutrients moisture) Soil conservation and soil moisture)

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Energy

Energy conservation depletion

Decrease in biomass resources

Increase in biomass Stable supply of use biomass resources

Land Land

conservation degradation (Desertification, (Desertification, Deforestation) Deforestation)

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60MW PV Plant: Olmedilla (Cuenca) Presently World Largest PV Plant

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Cumulative MW-scale PV installation

10,000

50%

8,000

40%

6,000

30%

4,000

20%

2,000

10%

0

0% 2002

2003

2004

MW-s cale PV s ys tem s

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Ratioof MW -scalePVinstallation

Cumulativeinstallatoin[MW ]

As of the end of 2007 - 724MW: 9.2% of all PV application in IEA-PVPS As of September 2008 - Over 1.7 GW (about 600MW over 10MW-scale PV) - More than 10% by the end of 2008

2005 All applications

2006

2007

Ratio of MW-s cale

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Capacity Trends of MW-scale PV installation 2020end > 6000 MW System Capacity (MW/system) Capacity of PV system [MW/system]

120

2010end ≈ 100 MW

100

MW-scale PV system installation in each year

80

60

40

20

0 2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

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Our Future Directions toward 2100 1,600

Geothermal Other REs

WBGU: German Advisory Council on Global Change

Primary Energy Supply [EJ/Y]

1,400

Solar heat

1,200 Solar electricity

1,000 800

Wind

600

Biomass adv

400 200 0 2000

2010

2020

2030

2040

2050

2100 2060

Biomass trad Hydro-PW Nuclear PW Gas Coal Oil 208 2070

YEAR IEA PVPS Task 8

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Proposed Scenarios toward 2030-2050 & beyond

1974

2000

2010

2030 2050 PV module Technology

1G

2G

2100

kk-Ver.f08829

133TW cum 4.4TW/Y

3G Recycle

4.4TW/Y

Rooftop PV

Global Energy Mix

Developing Region Scenario + Storage SHS Mini-Grid Community Scale Grid Scenario (Micro-Grid) + Storage Community-Grid VLS-PV to Global-Grid Large Large Scale Scale to to Very Very Large Large Scale Scale PV PV + Storage International to Global Grid 25

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Annual Net Installation including Replacement

Annual PV Installation [GW/Y]

Net Stock

800 GW

10 TW

World Total PV

VLS-PV Installation

133 TW

4.56 TW 4.26 TW/Y 1/3 World TPES 2.28 TW/Y 2.19 TW/Y

1070 GW/Y 120 GW/Y 20 GW/Y

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75TW

236 GW/Y

Source: IEA PVPS Task 8 3rd Report ”Energy from the Desert”

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Annual PV Market including Replacement Net Stock

800 GW

Investment for PV Installation [M$/Y]

Annual P. 120 GW/Y

75TW

10 TW

133 TW

4.26 TW/Y

1070 GW/Y

World Total PV

3.32 T$/Y

4.56 TW

3.41 T$/Y 375兆円/Y

365兆円/Y VLS-PV Installation

1.70 T$/Y 187兆円/Y

1.71 T$/Y

967 B$/Y

188兆円/Y

106兆円/Y

159 B$/Y 17.5兆円/Y 27.6 B$/Y

81.1 B$/Y 8.9兆円/Y

(1 $ = 110 Y)

3.03兆円/Y IEA PVPS Task 8

Source: IEA PVPS Task 8 3rd Report ”Energy from the Desert”

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Nowadays: More Realistic ! Please, Wait for the 3rd Volume!

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