PV2050: Sustainability, market deployment and interaction to the grid – the impacts of advanced PV solutions

At a glance

Project leader : Vicente Carabias-Hütter, Prof. Dr. Bettina Furrer
Project team : Thomas Baumann, Prof. Dr. Franz Baumgartner, Lea Eymann, René Itten, Tobias Kuehn, Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi, Dr. Hartmut Nussbaumer, Dr. Matthias Schmid, Prof. Harry Spiess, Matthias Stucki
Project status : completed
Funding partner : SNSF (NFP 70 «Energiewende»)
Project partner : Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL
Contact person : Vicente Carabias-Hütter

Description

The opportunities for photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion to support the requested transition for the realization of the Energy Strategy 2050 are widely recognized. However, if PV is to make a significant contribution to satisfy global energy requirements, issues of sustainability need to be addressed with increased urgency. This project aims at assessing the sustainability impacts of the devices and (potential) products being developed within the PV2050 projects. The sustainability impact assessment will cover not only purely environmental aspects (e.g. CO2 equivalent, energy yield), but also socio-economic impacts (e.g. influence on employment rate, acceptance, demand), as well as pricing and market deplo yment of solar electricity, and the impact on the grid. We expect that, in case of success in the technology developments, the next generation photovoltaic solutions proposed, will have a significant impact on penetration of PV in the Swiss grid, which will require various measures to guarantee a safe, clean but still affordable electricity supply.

Further information

SNF-Projektwebseite

Publications

Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias; Clua Longas, Angela; Cattaneo, Gianluca,

2019.

Active façades : life cycle environmental impacts and savings of photovoltaic power plants integrated into the building envelope.

In:

36th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), Marseille, France, 9-13 September 2019.
Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias; Clua Longas, Angela; Cattaneo, Gianluca,

2019.

Active façades : life cycle environmental impacts and savings of photovoltaic power plants integrated into the building envelope.

In:

9th International Conference on Life Cycle Management, Poznan, Poland, 1-4 September 2019.
Stahel, Valentin; Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

2018.

Integration of photovoltaic power plants into the grid : life cycle environmental impacts of infrastructure adaptations for photovoltaic electricity.

In:

35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC), Brussels, Belgium, 24-27 September 2018.

Available from: https://userarea.eupvsec.org/proceedings/35th-EU-PVSEC-2018/5EO.1.5/
Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

2018.

Highly efficient multi-junction solar cells using silicon heterojunction and perovskite tandem : prospective life cycle environmental impacts.

In:

68th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, Zürich, 16. April 2018.

Available from: http://www.lcaforum.ch/portals/0/df68/DF68-12_Itten.pdf
Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; Tomic, Uros; Spiess, Harry; Kuehn, Tobias; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente,

2018.

Exploring the social acceptance of building integrated photovoltaics in Switzerland.

In:

Behave 2018 : Book of Abstracts.

5th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency (BEHAVE 2018), Zurich, 5-7 September 2018.

Winterthur:

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.
Frischknecht, Rolf; Bauer, Christian; Bucher, Christof; Ager-Wick Ellingsen, Linda; Gutzwiller, Lukas; Heimbach, Britta; Itten, René; Liao, Xun; Panos, Evangelos; Pfister, Stephan; Schmidt, Tobias; Stahel, Valentin; Stolz, Philippe; Toggweiler, Peter; Treyer, Karin; Villeneuve, Jacques; Wade, Andreas; Weil, Marcel,

2018.

LCA of key technologies for future electricity supply : 68th LCA forum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 16 April, 2018 [paper].

In:

68th LCA Discussion Forum on Life Cycle Assessment, Zürich, 16. April 2018.

Heidelberg:

Springer.

pp. 1716-1721.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11367-018-1496-y
Neukom, Martin; Züfle, Simon; Jenatsch, Sandra; Ruhstaller, Beat,

2018.

Opto-electronic characterization of third-generation solar cells.

Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

19(1), pp. 291-316.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2018.1442091
Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; López, Luis; Kuehn, Tobias; Roth, Raoul; Carabias-Hütter, Vicente; Zipper, Christian,

2018.

Social life cycle assessment : specific approach and case study for Switzerland.

Sustainability.

10(12), pp. 4382.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124382
Stucki, Matthias; Itten, René,

2017.

High efficient 3rd generation multi-junction solar cells using silicon heterojunction and perovskite technology : life cycle based environmental impacts [poster].

In:

Life Cycle Management (LCM) 2017, Luxembourg, 3.-6. September 2017.

ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4833
Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias; Steinegger, Tobias,

2017.

Wooden mounting systems : how to reduce environmental impacts of building integrated photovoltaic power plants [poster].

In:

Life Cycle Management (LCM) 2017, Luxembourg, 3.-6. September 2017.

Open Data and Downloads

Open Data

Lobsiger, Evelyn; Tomic, Uros, 2019. Survey on acceptability of building-integrated PV (BIPV) in Switzerland. Verfügbar auf zenodo unter: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3365919.

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