Brussels, 21 October 2015 – The closing event of the Performance Plus project was held in Brussels to present the project’s conclusions and recommendations for policy-makers, regulators, industry and technical experts. The Performance Plus project, supported by the European Commission, focused on developing and demonstrating models and tools to monitor, control and test PV plants.
The all-day event, co-organised with PVCROPS, brought together industry energy experts, policy makers and representatives from the European institutions. The debate allowed participants to find out how these models, methods and tools can be used to optimize and enhance the performance, reliability and lifetime of commercial PV systems.
Mauricio Richter, the Project Coordinator of the Performance Plus project and PV expert at 3E said: “The Photovoltaic industry has made large technological progress with PV cells, modules and inverters in terms of costs and reliability. However, from an integrated perspective, PV system performance is not limited to the performance of the components. Therefore, in order to ensure a continued decrease of the costs linked to electricity from PV, the performance, functionality, reliability and lifetime on the PV system level need to be improved. The Performance Plus project has put everything at work to understand these discrepancies between predicted and actual performance of PV systems and to provide new models, methods and tools to overcome these limitations.”
The presentations can be found HERE.
Background information
The Performance Plus project has developed models, methods and tools to optimize and enhance the performance, reliability and lifetime of commercial PV systems. All results were validated and demonstrated with empirical data from a total of 25 PV systems across Europe. Novel methods have been introduced and validated for advanced PV module modelling, short-term forecasting, testing and diagnostics, advanced PV system monitoring techniques and integrated energy management and storage control. Some of these project results are already being transformed into proven marketable products. The results of the validation and demonstration phase as well as many other documents are available on the project website: http://www.perfplus.eu/
Performance Plus is the result of unique international collaboration between the market, the industry and high level research. Performace Plus is managed by a consortium composed of 3E, the AIT – Austrian Institute of Technology, the University of Oldenburg, Alitec, Imec, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). The Performance Plus project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 308991.
