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Background in Remaining Topics

Lecture 18 – 2.626

Tonio Buonassisi

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Agenda

• 2.626 Status Review

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11/13Modules

11/11 11/13Veteran’s Day Holiday Modules

11/11Veteran’s Day Holiday

11/20Guest: Mike Rogol (Prices, 

Markets, Trends)

11/2011/18 Guest: Mike Rogol (Prices, 

Theory: Remaining Topics Markets, Trends)

11/18Theory: Remaining Topics

11/27Thanksgiving Holiday

11/25 11/27Guest: Brendan Neagle Thanksgiving Holiday(Modules, Installations)

11/25Guest: Brendan Neagle(Modules, Installations)

12/4Presentations Day 1

12/2 12/4Tour: Evergreen Solar (10‐ Presentations Day 1

11am)

12/2Tour: Evergreen Solar (10‐

11am)

12/9Presentations Day 2

12/9Presentations Day 2

Remaining Lectures At a Glance

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Agenda

Tour• Evergreen signup sheet.• Option: Additional Tours

Class Projects• Class Budget: $400!• Resources Check.• Presentations Lottery.

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Remaining Topics

Modules:• Design criteria, tradeoffs, costs.

• Building integration, BIPV.

• System integration.

• Scaling, and integration into the power grid. 

• Appropriate technology selection.

• Failure: failure modes in stationary and tracking systems, accelerated testing, field testing, service and warranty contracts.

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Remaining Topics

Cost & Manufacturability:• Cost: Building a cost model, key drivers of cost, substitution economics. • Manufacturing: Environments, models, operations, process yield, 

handling. • Predicting shortages and bottlenecks.• Scaling: the multi‐GW plant. Production technologies. Factory Tour.

Price and Markets:• What sets price (and profit)• Energy future and overview of renewable energy sources• Economics and market dynamics• Fluctuations in supply and demand, drivers for oversupply/undersupply 

conditions, and what this means for profits.• Subsidies: Why subsidize? How much to subsidize? Role of PV in the global 

energy market.

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Price, Markets & Subsidies

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Markets

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 7 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Customer Needs

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 8 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Substitution Economics

• What type(s) of grid electricity will PV substitute?– What will this mean for traditional gencos?

• What is a fair selling price for PV electricity?

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Markets

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 7 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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“Value” of PV Electricity

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 16 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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PV Installations Worldwide

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 10 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 15 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Seasonal and Diurnal Electricity Prices

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 14 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 11 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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SubsidiesInc

entive

s! Tax Breaks!

Support Mechanisms!

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Measure Advantages Disadvantages Examples

Feed-in tariff Stable revenues.Technology specific

Uneconomic deployment

Germany/Spain/USA

Premium to fossil market

Greater transparency

Greater uncertainty on fossil price

UK

Tax relief Simple Too easily changed by Government

USA

Margin enhancement

Grants/soft loans Simple Allocation procedure

EU member states, USA

Penalties Carbon caps Transparent Customers pay premium for all generation

European emissions trading

Mixture Renewable Obligations

Transparent, market driven.Technology independent

Price uncertaintyTechnology independent

UK

Many forms of support

“best”depends on other policy objectives

Summary of Support Mechanisms

Slide courtesy D. Kammen, UC Berkeley

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 12 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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United States

• Lack of federal leadership led to fractionalized energy policy.– Huge state‐to‐state variation.

– Website compiling all state‐specific information:

http://www.dsireusa.org/

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Courtesy of North Carolina Solar Center. Used with permission.

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see: http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/SummaryMaps/RPS_map.ppt.

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see: http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/SummaryMaps/Solar_DG_RPS_map.ppt.

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Courtesy of North Carolina Solar Center. Used with permission.

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see: http://www.dsireusa.org/documents/SummaryMaps/Rebate_map.ppt.

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Projections

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Slide 8 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "Global Market Situation and Scenarios for the Next5 Years." 2nd International Conference on Solar Photovoltaic Investments, February 19, 2008.

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% of Total Production

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 19 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Evolution of the Energy Mix

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see slide 22 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Role of Photovoltaic Solar Energy to Power the 21st Century's Global Prime Energy Demand." September 17, 2008.

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Technological Projections

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Some “solutions” are radically different!

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Slide 7 in Hoffmann, Winfried. "The Costs and Benefits of Renewable Energy." IEA Workshop, March 15, 2007.

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“Bucky” Fuller’s global electrical grid proposed in the 1970s augmented with computerized load management and high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables could transmit electricity from day to night locations and foster low-loss distribution from remote, episodic or dangerous power sources. The resistivity of copper oxide HTS wires vanishes below the 77 K boiling point of

liquid N2 available from air. Could HTS nanotubes do the job someday?

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 2b in Hoffert, Martin I., et al. “Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet.”Science 298 (November 1, 2002): 981-987.

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Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 3a in Hoffert, Martin I., et al. “Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet.”Science 298 (November 1, 2002): 981-987.

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Investment & Technology Pipeline

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Source: DOE, Clean Energy Futures (2000)

U.S. Gov't R&D by Budget Function, 1955-199

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Source: DOE, Clean Energy Futures (2000)

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://www.aaas.org/spp/rd/histda04.pdf.

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Funding‐Patent Correlation for EnergyP a

ten ts Gr an te d

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R. Margolis and D. Kammen (1999) Science, 285, 690 - 692.

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 2b in Margolis, Robert M., and Daniel M. Kammen. “Underinvestment: The Energy Technology and R&D Policy Challenge.” Science 285 (July 30, 1999): 690-692.

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Funding‐Patent Correlation for PV

D. Kammen and G. Nemet, Issues in Sci & Techn., Fall 2005, p. 84

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 2e, “Photovoltaics,” in Kammen, Daniel M., and Gregory F. Nemet. “Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget.” Issues in Science and Technology (Fall 2005): 84.

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Fund

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ergy

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Fig. 2, “Patent data confirms problem,” in Kammen, Daniel M., and Gregory F. Nemet. “Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget.” Issues in Science and Technology (Fall 2005): 84.