How to Ensure a Sustainable Market Growth for the PV Sector: The PV Parity Project
Creators: name: Weiss, I.
name: Caneva, S.
name: Arancón, S.
name: Masson, G.
name: Latour, M.
name: Sinke, W.C.
name: Olson, C.
name: Veltkamp, T.
name: Tsoutsos, T.
name: Tournaki, S.
name: Pause, F.
name: De Mango, F.
name: Bastone, L.
name: Raganella, M.
name: Dalla Chiesa, C.
name: Strbac, G.
name: Pudjianto, D.
name: Auer, H.
name: Lettner, G.
name: Montoya, C.
name: Vázquez, R.
name: Guilmard, S.
Publisher: name: WIP
Year: 2012
Subjects: PV - a Major Electricity Source
Markets

description: 27th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 4379-4383
description: The European Directive 2009/28/EC for the promotion of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) sets the target
of supplying 20% of EU’s final energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2020, which corresponds to
meeting 30-35% of the electricity demand from RES. High RES scenario presented in Energy Roadmap 2050 by the
European Commission foresees that 75% of the gross final energy consumption and 97% of the electricity consumption
can be supplied from RES by 2050. With the increasing system performances and decreasing production costs, PV will
provide a strong contribution to reach these targets.
The PV sector needs an appropriate policy and legal framework to ensure a sustainable market growth. To reach this
ambitious target, European and National policy makers need to be provided with objective and transparent information
on the potentiality of the PV sector, such as the competitiveness of electricity produced by PV systems, and on the
appropriate support schemes to reach the PV competitiveness as well as to achieve further targets. Through the PV Parity
project, policy makers will obtain the necessary information to ensure a sustainable policy framework for the PV sector.
In order to ensure that the documentation elaborated during the PV Parity project is objective and transparent, the results
achieved during the project will be shared with the relevant stakeholders of the PV sector, such as utilities, distributor
system operators (DSOs), research institutes on energy and legislation, energy regulators.
The steps to be carried out during the PV Parity project in order to reach a sustainable policy framework for the PV
sector are the following:
• definition of PV competitiveness
• roadmaps to PV grid parity in 11 European Countries
• definition of the relevance of PV electricity import from Middle East North Africa (MENA) countries
• cost / benefits of the PV network integration
• state of the art of the support schemes
• elaboration of alternative support schemes
• dissemination of the project outcomes to National and European policy makers
The European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC) presents a unique opportunity to
share information on the initial results of the PV Parity project such as the definition of PV competitiveness and the
roadmaps towards the PV competitiveness.
The PV Parity project started in June 2011 and will end in November 2013. The PV Parity project is co-financed by the
European Commission in the framework of the Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Program.