“Photovoltaic Solar Energy: the way forward”
Thursday, 31 January 2008
In the frame of the Sustainable Energy Week
Charlemagne Building, Brussels
Rue de la Loi, 170 – 1040 Brussels

Photovoltaic solar energy: the way forward

Thursday, 31^st January 2008. Sustainable Energy Week, Brussels

This conference was organized by the EU Photovoltaic Technology Platform in the framework of the Sustainable Energy Week. This event takes place every year in Brussels and is organized by the European Commission with strong support of European associations involved in sustainability, environment and energy.

Background

The Photovoltaic Technology Platform (PVTP) is an initiative which aims at mobilising industry, research and market stakeholders “sharing a long-term European vision for photovoltaic; realising the European Strategic Research Agenda for PV for the next decade(s) and give recommendations for implementation, ensuring the rapid development of a World – Class cost competitive European PV”.

The PV TP already delivered a number of positive outcomes, including in particular its participation in the preparation of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan and the publication of a Strategic Research Agenda. The platform set itself a roadmap, aiming at the following minimum contribution of PV to total electricity supply in the EU: 2% by 2020; 10% by 2030; 30% by 2040.

The PV Platform intends to contribute in particular to the “Third Industrial Revolution Interplatform” (gathering 13 different technology platforms). It will also prepare concrete proposals for the setting of the “Solar Europe Initiative”, one of the initiatives announced by the European Commission in the framework of the SET Plan.

Its next general assembly will take place on 6 June in Ljubljana, Slovenia.