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ALL ABOUT "PHOTOVOLTAICS"
In 2008 the world market in photovoltaics has doubled compare to the year before (+119%) reaching 5.8 GWc end 2008.
Europe carries ± 80% of the installed capacity. Spain has become the leading photovoltaic country per inhabitant. The biggest part being essentially connected to the grid. USA has now reached the third ranking (in 2008) in the world after Spain and Germany: its PV potential is end 2008, 1.2 GWp. Most major PV cells manufacturers are in ASIA. The largest Q-Cells is in Germany and USA is following closely. (Source "Observ'ER"- France)
Spreading our experience: planting a seed in Texas!
A few years ago we visited some friends in Texas - USA. They have a magnificent home, he built, (as a developer), along a river. He also had several other houses in a similar style ready for sale in a large development in the County. We noticed that all these houses had a very large metal roof. As there was a gorgeous continuous sunshine, we couldn't help asking why he had not covered these roofs with PV panels to produce each home's own power, considering the permanent use of air conditioning in such a sunny climate? He believed this would have been highly costly and ugly to look at. We had brought our PV CD-ROM and gave him some extended information about this and showed him the "looks" PV panels now have, to enhance the attractiveness of a house rather than making it ugly. We also told him about Austria, where having PV panels on your roof is a proof of your awareness and participation towards the energy pollution problem, and in Austria it is actually considered as a "status symbol".
All this made him think... and 2 years later our friend has not only applied the "good advice" for himself but is developing a huge project in Texas around Clean Energy with a great success and participation of PV and other RES equipment manufacturers and the State of Texas, and other Public Authorities, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the State of Texas and the entire Country.
The LIOR GUIDES are effectively contributing to the knowledge and experience in many parts of the Project.
Now President Obama acclaims all such initiatives and the Federal Governement will help create jobs, economy improvements and wellbeing by supporting and encourage such grand Renewable Energy projects.
AUTHORS:
- Dr. Gian Luca Ferrero - LIOR - Belgium
Collaboration: N.R.E.L. Golden - Colorado - USA
This sector contains
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A complete and up-to-date overview of Solar Photovoltaic technologies , richly illustrated with photos, diagrams and drawings of Photovoltaic systems all over the world: latest photovoltaic technologies and developments, materials, applications, environmental & economic aspects. It contains ± 4900 screens - highly illustrated, interactive and multimedia.
Example projects : hundreds of replicable International projects explained & illustrated from homes to industry - Examples of demonstration and commercial Photovoltaic systems: technical data and often costs
Directory of over 1.400 Suppliers, Sub-suppliers, Engineering Companies, Consultants, Certification Centres, R&D Centres, Education & Training Institutions, Associations and other Organisations:
Databases : legislations, statistics, conversions, image gallery, publications, ready paths etc
Special modules: “build your own path” for presentations or teaching / training sessions Titles, Keywords & definitions in 5 languages (FR-DE-IT-ES-NL). Basic text in plain English. Formulae for calculations (also on this site)
Product Specifications:
- Each LIOR GUIDE is a fully autonomous application for Windows®, only requiring a recent Quicktime® for viewing the videos.
- File size: Zipped for downloading 302 MB - Unzipped 365 MB
- Harddisk space needed: ± 1 GB
- Special Price : 98 US $: Download immediately after purchase
- Also available on CD-ROM: 150 Euros (see order CD section)
- Download time: only possible with Broadband: 10 to 20 minutes
See also other Solar Multimedia GUIDE:
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