Author(s):	Kurokawa, K; Komoto, K; Vleuten, P. van der; Faiman, D.
Organization:	TUAT - Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, Koganei,Tokyo,184-8588 Japan, Email: kurochan@cc.tuat.ac.jp Mizuho Information & Research Institute (MHIR), Takebashi Square, Kanda-Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-8443 Free Energy International BV, P.O. box 9564, 5602 LN Eindhoven, The Netherlands Ben-Gurion University of Negev, Sede Boquer Campus, 84990 Israel
Date of issue:	September 2006
Details:	7 pages: figures, tables; with references
Type:	Paper IEA PVPS Task 8
Presented at:	21st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, 4-8 September 2006, Dresden, Germany
Download:	Open or download the paper as PDF file (529 kb) Open or download the slides of the presentation as PDF file (6300 kb)
Abstract:	In 2003, IEA PVPS Task 8 published their report titled “Energy from the Desert” concerning Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation (VLS-PV) Systems on deserts. Through their 5 year really international, collaborative works, the book showed that VLS-PV, ranging from several mega watts to giga watts, is not a simple dream story but becomes realistic in near future. For the past 3 years since then, specialists in the task have studied and proposed more detailed, practical, demonstrative R&D approaches toward the realization of VLS-PV in different regions in the world deserts: e.g., the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, Asia and Oceania. These new works will be published soon as the Second Phase Report of Task VIII titled “Energy from the Desert - Practical Proposals for Very Large Scale Photovoltaic Systems” and their essences are to be released at the conference right before the publication.

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