IEA SHC Solar Academy: Solar heat and electricity: PVT solutions for buildings and industry
Over the past few years, PVT systems that combine solar thermal technology and solar PV have gained more attention. In 2018, IEA SHC started the Task 60 called “PVT systems” to better understand the applications of the technology. PVT solutions can be used in several ways which Task 60 is currently investigating with heating or cooling for residential, commercial, administrative or industrial buildings as the main application. This webinar will introduce the current status of PVT technologies, show examples of systems, analyze the markets and trends, talk about the key findings of Task 60 and open new horizons.
The webinar will welcome the following three presentations:
- Jean-Christophe Hadorn: Why consider PVT systems?
- Laetitia Brottier: Overview of the PVT industry and perspectives
- Daniel Zenhäusern: PVT systems figure of merits and KPI
The webinar will be moderated by Bärbel Epp, founder and managing director of the German consultancy solrico for solar market research & international communication.
Q/A Session: The 90-minute webinar will include a 30 minutes Q/A session.
The webinar is organized by the Solar Academy of the IEA SHC Programme and hosted by ISES, the International Solar Energy Society .
Webinar presentations
Speakers
Bärbel Epp - Moderator
Bärbel Epp is the founder and managing director of the German consultancy solrico – solar market research & international communication. She is responsible for the international newsletter on the web portal www.solarthermalworld.org, reporting exclusively about market and technology trends in the solar heating and cooling sector. solrico also published the first World Map of SHIP suppliers (SHIP = Solar Heat for Industrial Processes) see www.solar-payback.com/suppliers and carries out surveys among the around 80 companies listed on the world map. Since three years Bärbel Epp is also author of the SHC chapter of the Annual Global Status Report on Renewables published by REN21.
Jean-Christophe Hadorn
Mr. Hadorn is an engineer and a manager from Switzerland. He developed activities in engineering in different companies and in management consulting.
He has a long experience in solar thermal energy and heat storage since 1979 and in solar PV since 2005 and was involved in several IEA SHC Tasks.
He is CEO of Solar energies and strategies a consulting company in Switzerland and he is the Operating Agent of IEA SHC Task 60 “PVT Systems 2018-2020” on behalf the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.
Laetitia Brottier
After a double degree of engineering and entrepreneurship at the Ecole Centrale Paris engineering school and a PhD in energetics at the Paris Saclay Ecole Normale Supérieure University, Laetitia Brottier was at the origin of the DualSun hybrid concept and in 2010 co-founded the company to develop, industrialize and commercialize the technology. At the end of 2013, the DualSun was the first module in the world to pass the PVT IEC certifications. In 2020 DualSun launches its 4th certified version, ever more powerful and competitive. Today, as Head of Innovation and Research at DualSun, she is responsible for keeping DualSun as a technological leader on the PVT market.
Daniel Zenhäusern
Daniel Zenhäusern is a researcher at the main solar research institute of Switzerland and head of Subtask D of Task 60 of the IEA SHC programme.
IEA SHC Solar Academy
The SHC Solar Academy is the latest effort by the IEA SHC Programme to share it’s work and support R&D and implementation of solar heating and cooling projects worldwide. The academy includes webinars by IEA SHC experts on specific results and tools and hosted by ISES, videos highlighting IEA SHC's work and other relevant issues, national days for the exchange of information between national experts and IEA SHC experts and onsite training by IEA SHC experts is offered by request in IEA SHC member countries.
Please find more information on the IEA SHC academy here