Task 10 Status Report
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Last updated: 24 May 2006

Introduction

Fig. 1 - EPIA provides a presentation at the Task 10 French stakeholders' workshop, “Solar Cities Around the World.” The work plan for this Task is designed for flexibility towards the fast growing and emerging market. The grid connected PV market requires new financial relationships beyond the network industry and their customers, as well as integration into traditional operations and planning of the broader stakeholder group involved in the market.

Task 10 work initiated in January 2004, with a 5 year planned period of work. There has been delay of resource commitment to the Task, but as the second year of the Task is completed, several resolutions have occurred:

These additional resources and particularly the PV-UP-SCALE project which is a 3 year project beginning in January 2006, will put Task 10 back on schedule.
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Overall objective

The objective of Task 10 is to enhance the opportunities for wide-scale, solution-oriented applications of PV in the urban environment as part of an integrated approach that maximizes building energy efficiency and solar thermal and photovoltaics usage. Value analysis, policy incentives, analysis tools as well as system design and integration that have proven successful in the participating countries will be developed to the extent possible into a uniform international set of tools for the global market.

This will be accomplished through:

In line with the objectives, the short-term goal (5 years post) of the Task is to have a clear definition of the global market and all associated values, resulting in stakeholders considering urban scale PV in their respective spheres of activities. The Task's long term goal (10 years post) is for urban-scale PV to be a desirable and commonplace feature of the urban environment in IEA PVPS member countries.
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Approach

There will be four subtasks in Task 10, with 17 activities. The total range of deliverables has been designed comprehensively to include and meet the various needs of the stakeholders who have been identified as having value systems which contribute to urban-scale PV. The deliverables are designed to optimise usefulness to the stakeholders and have multiple communication and promotion scenarios. Although each of the deliverables is a separate product which can be developed independently from all the other deliverables, the relationship between deliverables will be cross-referenced or data based as appropriate. Through developing and producing these deliverables, Task 10 will contribute to achieving the vision of mainstreaming urban-scale PV.

The comprehensive list of targeted stakeholders is:

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Subtasks and activities

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Industry involvement

At the 20th EU-PVSEC, Task 10 was invited to participate in an industry meeting looking at values, several points emerged as important to industry from this meeting. The network peak match value of PV, which has been started in Task 10 and is a work product to be completed by the end of 2006 in PV-UP-SCALE Standardizing value analysis so that different countries are not presenting differing answers to non-country specific values, which Task 10 is starting to address by participating in the analysis publication database, expected to lead to analysis guidelines following the values-by-stakeholder matrix developed in Task 10.

Additionally, as Task 10 moves forward, the two main reasons for commitment delays which are market oriented will be considered as deliverables are developed. These reasons:

  1. As the PV market grows at phenomenal rates, countries question their analysis/resource investment in deployment type work such as Task 10 and consider R&D expenditures to be more important. Task 10 will participate in the development of a publication database, which should help with both analysis and R&D coordination.
  2. Three countries, Japan, Germany, and USA (mainly California) installed 94 % of the 2004 market. The market sectors that have emerged, though both grid connected, are mainly customer sited for the purpose of offsetting customer energy use (Japan and California) and large free field systems for the purpose of selling into the grid (Germany and most of EU). The later market sector of free field systems puts to question the need for urban-scale deployment type work such as Task 10. Both markets are policy driven and Task 10 will work towards understanding the market transformation related to the policies.
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Key deliverables (2004, 2005 and planned)

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Participants

Fig. 2 - Task 10 Technical Experts, Washington, DC, October 2005. Task 10 participants and experts supporting them are listed in Task 10 participants.
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Meeting schedule

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