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22.09.2014: Easy Smart Grid participates in the European PV Solar Energy Conference (Amsterdam, Netherland)

The EU PVSEC is the world largest Specialist PV Solar Conference and covers the entire range of PV research, technologies and applications, focusing on the latest scientific, technological and market-related trends. We will present our solution during the workshop “Self-consumption business models - technical and economic challenges”. In this workshop, potential and challenges of self-consumption based business models will be discussed, with a focus on storage and “Demand Side Management” through Solar heating and Cooling.

EU-PVSEC is the largest scientific Conference on Photovoltaic technologies and markets. The Conference takes place this year in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from Monday to Friday, 22 to 26 September 2014. The international Conference program covers the entire range of PV research, technologies and applications, focusing on the latest scientific, technological and market-related trends. Now, that Photovoltaic Solar Energy is becoming a major electricity source, the EU PVSEC extended its focus to applied and policy-oriented topics. The EU PVSEC thus strengthens its established leading role in science and technology among the players of the global PV sector.

Dr. Thomas Walter will presents Easy Smart Grid approach during the workshop co-organized by the IEA (with its PV, Solar Heating& Cooling and RETD programs) and EPIA, the European PV Industry Association. The workshop will focus on Self-consumption business models and the related technical and economic challenges. While the cost of PV electricity is going down, the question of how business models based on the self-consumption of PV electricity becomes more acute. The workshop will explore the challenges associated with producing electricity with PV for local needs from a technical and economical point of view. An in-depth analysis of the potential and challenges of self-consumption based business models will be discussed, with a focus on storage and “Demand Side Management” through Solar heating and Cooling. In addition, the need to integrate in the electricity system and especially the question of the integration into the distribution grids will be linked to the question of self-consumption.

More information can be found here: EU PVSEC website and IEA PVPS website