PV in the future energy system - Speakers

Speakers

	Mart van der Meijden
	Mart van der Meijden has more than 35 years of working experience in the field of process automation, electricity transmission and the distribution of gas, district heating and electricity. A constant factor in his life is working on the cutting edge with research and innovation. Mart is manager R&D/Innovation in Germany and in the Netherlands with TenneT TSO, Europe's first cross-border grid operator for electricity. Mart is also full professor at Delft University of Technology. His chair is "Large-Scale Sustainable Power Systems". He lectures "Power Systems of the Future" to MSc students and his scientific team is engaged with various outstanding national and international research projects, such as, NWO-URSES, TSO2020, MIGRATE, COBRACable, and PROMOTiON. Mart is member of IEEE, ENTSO-E/RDIC, ETIP-SNET and CIGRE and he has joined and chaired different national and international expert groups.
Abstract	Wind and Solar in future Power Systems The ambitious goals of our European society with relation to carbon-free electricity in 2050 call for the integration of a large amount of GWs solar PV and on- and offshore wind. These massive power-electronics-connected, highly-variable sustainable energy sources put extreme requirements on the electrical power transmission and distribution systems. The question arises if we can keep the lights on in the long run at affordable costs. Can we solve the puzzle just with electrical equations? What will be the future role of solar PV and wind energy production facilities? What is the important role in this context of the new Electrical Sustainable Power laboratory of Delft University of Technology?
	Dr. William Tumas
	Dr. William Tumas is the Associate Laboratory Director for Materials and Chemical Science and Technology at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which carries out fundamental and applied R&D for renewable energy and energy efficiency including solar energy conversion for electricity and fuels, materials discovery and development, nanoscience, energy storage, hydrogen production, fuel cells and advanced electrocatalysis. Bill is also the Director of the Center for the Next Generation of Materials Design (www.cngmd-efrc.org) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and led the Center for Inverse Design EFRC from 2011-2014. Prior to joining NREL in 2009, Bill held a number of leadership positions at Los Alamos National Laboratory for 17 years including the Program Director for Applied Energy Programs and group leader of inorganic chemistry. He started his career at Dupont Central Research after postdoctoral research at Caltech. His research activities have included materials discovery, solar energy conversion, chemical hydrogen storage, catalysis, supercritical fluids and alternate reaction media, green chemistry, and waste treatment technology development and assessment. He has over 60 peer-reviewed publications, 12 patents, and has given over 125 invited presentations. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University and a B.A in Chemistry from Ithaca College.
Abstract	Advanced R&D at NREL for Solar Energy Conversion, Storage and Utilization William Tumas, Associate Laboratory Director for Materials and Chemistry National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado Meeting our future global energy needs in an environmentally responsible way is one of the greatest challenges in the twenty first century. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) takes a systems-based, assessment-driven R&D approach to understand the limitations and enhance the performance of current energy systems, accelerate emerging concepts, and develop next generation materials, concepts and systems. An overview of NREL’s extensive R&D program in photovoltaics and related technologies will be presented along with remaining research challenges and opportunities. Topics in photovoltaics will include advancements in thin film PV, new processing concepts for highly efficient crystalline III-V solar cells, and the underpinning science for creating efficient, stable, readily processable perovskite-based solar cells. Other aspects of our solar energy portfolio include fundamental solar photochemistry, durable photovoltaic (PV) module materials, and PV reliability as well as systems integration. An overview of our program in energy storage will also be presented including battery science and technology at multiple scales. NREL has a broad R&D portfolio supporting the US Department of Energy goals in hydrogen production, storage, and utilization (https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/h2scale). In NREL’s Electrons to Molecules initiative, we are developing the innovative science and technology for using electricity and electrochemical processes to convert low-energy molecules such as water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrogen (N2) to higher-value products. We will also present highlights on materials design and discovery research from the Next Generation for Materials Design (CNGMD) Energy Frontier Research Center (www.cngmd-efrc.org), where are goal is to develop a systematic methodology to incorporate and actively design and guide the synthesis of functional metastable materials, particularly metal oxides and nitrides.
	Fabrizio Bizzarri
	Fabrizio Bizzarri is the Head of Solar Innovation at ENEL Green Power. He is an electrical engineer involved on innovative activities, especially on solar field since the end of last century. He has been actively working in the construction of early PV plant and following the boom of installation in Italy. With more than 25 years of experience in engineering and construction activities, he is extremely active in R&D field, sponsoring and coordination of several financed projects. In 2009-2010, he launched the first department in ENL Green Power dedicated to Innovation and recently he has initiated new approaches to PV installation, sponsoring and accountability, among other initiatives, for the construction of the first bifacial HJT factory in the world to produce cells and module at industrial scale. He is responsible in ENEL Green Power for the Solar Innovation, managing the solar R&D (both PV factory and PV value chain) and the Enel Innovation LAB with more than 15 accredited laboratories dedicated to startups, where Enel makes experimentation of new project, idea and accelerates innovative companies.
Abstract	Innovability for industrial competitiveness: the disruption of PV Innovation and sustainability run together. We build a sustainable value using innovative approach to photovoltaics plants. We will present how we apply the Innovation in a sustainable manner: the method applied by ENEL Green Power and the main successful activities related to the PV modules (with 3sun HJT technology) and the PV plant.
	Ronn Andriessen
	Dr. Ronn Andriessen received his PhD in (Photo-)Chemistry in 1991 at the University of Leuven in Belgium. From 1991 to 2008 he worked at Agfa-Gevaert NV where he managed several R&D projects for next generation and new products like photographic films, electro-active films, like photo-voltaics and digital printing plates. In 2008 Ronn became program manager at Holst Centre/TNO of the shared research technology programs “printed conductive structures” and “large area printing”. Two years later he was involved in the set-up of the Solliance initiative, a cross-border and cross-institutional R&D collaboration on thin film PV technologies by TNO, Holst Centre, ECN, imec, FZJ, TUEindhoven, TUDelft and UHasselt where he became program manager of the industrial driven shared research OPV program. In 2015 the focus of this OPV program switched to perovskite based solar cells. Ronn became program director of Solliance in 2016 and in 2018 he became director of Solliance. Ronn contributed to over 100 patent applications and more than 50 scientific publications.
Abstract	“Mass Customization meets Mass Manufacturing” For the coming decades, it is expected that, apart from several other important interventions, several tens of TWp of PV capacity will need to be installed globally in order to put a stop on the climate change. To realize this, all available PV technologies will be needed. Thin film photovoltaics (PV) today represents only 5% of current global PV market. Thin film PV, and especially its flexible format, is currently entering its learning curve which will cause a drastic cost decrease the coming decade. Thin film PV has a very short energy payback time and a very low ecological footprint, compared with other energy harvesting technologies. The newest PV material “perovskite” is able to produce very efficient solar cells on its own but also in combination with other PV technologies in so-called stacked or multi-junction combinations. Low-cost solar cells with over 30% efficiency are within reach. Flexible solar cells and modules can be produced by employing roll-to-roll processes. By proper selection of fast and low energy consuming processing steps, very high throughputs are within reach, which could cause perovskite based PV to become a potential game-changer in PV industry. In its flexible form, thin film PV can be integrated in new and aesthetical ways, bringing electricity close to the human interface. For large deployment of integrated PV, Solliance works on the development of high throughput production processes for thin film PV as well as on the development of mass customization production processes to enable seamless integration of PV in our human interface. Electricity everywhere.