Experts from IEA  PVPS Task 8, Very Large-Scale Photovoltaic Systems or VLS-PV met in Utrecht in early December to discuss the workplan for the five-year task.

One of the immediate deliverables of the Task, which will concentrate on desert installation of multi-MW to GW scale plants, will be an official brochure summarizing the preliminary analysis of VLS-PV potential. The activity was undertaken as part of the preceding Task on design and operation of modular photovoltaic plants for large scale power generation, which concluded in 1997 (Task VI).

Additionally, a workshop on VLS-PV supported by Japan's New Energy Development Organisation, NEDO, is planned to coincide with the 16th European PV Solar Energy Conference in Glasgow, May 2000. The meeting will provide an opportunity toe present the outcome of the pre-feasibility study and to call new participants into this exciting and challenging new research area.

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• Kazuhiko Kato
  ETL, MITI
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