Pakistan Solar Association Newsletter Dec 2014 - Jan 2015 Page No. 1 INDEX: PSA INSIDE: Executive Committee Meetings (Page No. 2-5) Press Conference (Page No. 6-8) NATIONAL: Solar energy to be brought in to national power grid (Page No. 9) First-ever solar institute set up in Lahore (Page No. 10) BS, MS energy programmes to promote renewable energy lauded (Page No. 10) REGIONAL: India gets $4 billion solar energy promise (Page No. 11) Ban Ki-moon backs Modi’s solar vision for India (Page No. 12) GLOBAL: IHS: Top 10 predictions for global PV market in 2015 (Page No. 13-15) Solar took half of all renewables investment in 2014, says BNEF (Page No. 16) Analyst: Oil's impact on solar 'only superficial or derivative' (Page No. 17) Deutsche Bank predicts growing solar margins in 2015, despite oil price (Page No. 18-19) New world record for solar cell efficiency at 46% (Page No. 20-21) Executive Committee: Engr. Faiz M Bhutta, Chairman Mr. Nauman Khan, Vice Chairman Mr. Usman Ahmad, Vice Chairman Mr. Waleed Elahi, Vice Chairman Mian Sultan Mahmood, Member Mr. Muhammad Rizwan, Member Mr. Khurram Jan Ch., Member Engr. Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, Member Lt. Col. (R) Ahmad Fawad Farooq, Member Mr. Haseeb Saadat, Member Mr. Muhammad Farhan, Member Mr. Gulsher Khan, Member Mr. Inam Ur Rehman, Member Mian Ahmad Irfan, Patron
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Pakistan Solar Association Newsletter Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
Page No. 1
INDEX:
PSA INSIDE:
Executive Committee Meetings (Page No. 2-5)
Press Conference (Page No. 6-8)
NATIONAL:
Solar energy to be brought in to national
power grid (Page No. 9)
First-ever solar institute set up in Lahore (Page No. 10)
BS, MS energy programmes to promote
renewable energy lauded (Page No. 10)
REGIONAL:
India gets $4 billion solar energy promise (Page No. 11)
Ban Ki-moon backs Modi’s solar vision for India
(Page No. 12)
GLOBAL:
IHS: Top 10 predictions for global PV market in 2015 (Page No. 13-15)
Solar took half of all renewables investment in 2014, says BNEF (Page No. 16)
Analyst: Oil's impact on solar 'only superficial or derivative' (Page No. 17)
Deutsche Bank predicts growing solar margins in 2015, despite oil price (Page No. 18-19)
New world record for solar cell efficiency at 46% (Page No. 20-21)
Executive Committee:
Engr. Faiz M Bhutta, Chairman Mr. Nauman Khan, Vice Chairman Mr. Usman Ahmad, Vice Chairman Mr. Waleed Elahi, Vice Chairman Mian Sultan Mahmood, Member Mr. Muhammad Rizwan, Member Mr. Khurram Jan Ch., Member Engr. Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, Member Lt. Col. (R) Ahmad Fawad Farooq, Member Mr. Haseeb Saadat, Member Mr. Muhammad Farhan, Member Mr. Gulsher Khan, Member Mr. Inam Ur Rehman, Member
Mian Ahmad Irfan, Patron
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Participants: Mian Ahmad Irfan, Patron, Engr. Faiz M Bhutta, Chairman, Mr. Nauman khan, Vice Chairman, Mr. Waleed Elahi, Vice Chairman, Mr. Khurram Jan Ch. Member, Lt. Col. (R) Ahmad Fawad Farooq, Member, Engr. Muhammad Ishaq Bhatti, Member, Mr. Muhammad Rizwan, Member, Mr. M Farhan, Member, Mr. Saadat Saeed, representing Mr. Haseeb Saadat, Member, Mr. Khuzaima Aslam, representing Mian Sultan Mahmood, Member
PSA INSIDE Executive Committee Meeting, held on Dec 20, 2014
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Participants: Engr. Faiz M Bhutta, Chairman, Mr. Nauman khan, Vice Chairman, , Lt. Col. (R) Ahmad Fawad Farooq, Member, Mr. Andy Gao, Mr. Ibrar Khattak, Mr. Ali Zeeshan, Mr. Karrar Ali, Mr. Shafiq-ul- Rehman
PSA INSIDE
A meeting with International Finance Corporation (IFC), held on Jan 17, 2015
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Media Coverage: International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank group, offers
collaboration on ‘Lighting Pakistan’ project to Pakistan solar Association member companies.
PSA INSIDE
Lighting Pakistan:
On Jan 17, 2015, the project coordinator, IFC,
Mr. Ibrar Khattak visited PSA secretariat at
Lahore and held meeting with chairman, vice
chairman and member executive committee,
Engr. Faiz M Bhutta, Mr. Nauman Khan and
Lt. Col. (R) Ahmad Fawad Farooq,
respectively.
Mr. Khattak shared with PSA that after their
successful operations in Africa, South
America, India and Bangladesh, it is now
Pakistan where they are launching ‘Lighting
Pakistan’ (LP) project based on solar.
Through this project they plan to target off the
grid population which is having no access to
electricity.
IFC’s ‘Lighting Pakistan’ project will be
undertaken in collaboration with commercial
micro finance banks for financing the products
from solar lantern to solar home solutions.
The Solar based lighting products will be
affordable to the poor people of Pakistan.
Mr. Ibrar Khattak assured to support PSA in
the promoting Solar, in Pakistan.
PSA assured its cooperation for the
collaboration after consultation with its
members.
Mr. Andy Gao also accompanied Mr. Ibrar
Khattak, in the meeting.
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PSA INSIDE Media Coverage: International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank group, offers
collaboration on ‘Lighting Pakistan’ project to Pakistan solar Association member companies.
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PSA INSIDE Press Conference held on Dec 22, 2014
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PSA INSIDE Media Coverage: Press Conference held on Dec 22, 2014
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PSA INSIDE
Media Coverage: Press Conference held on Dec 22, 2014
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NATIONAL
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NATIONAL
Thursday, January 22, 2015
First-ever solar institute set up in Lahore
LAHORE: The first solar institute of the
country has been established by the private
sector which will produce solar specialists
besides provision of research, services and
consultancy on solar technology.
Director Solar Institute Engineer Faiz
Muhammad Bhutta told APP on Monday that
a solar lab and workshop equipped with
modern technologies had also been
established in the institute for training.
Students were being trained about the latest
demands of the modern era by experts of
University of Engineering and Technology in
the institute, he added.
He said it had become the need of hour to
constitute such institutes on public and
private level to provide solar education and
training to meet the necessities of the
increasing demand of solar energy.
Bhutta said that three day, five day, one
month and six months courses had been
introduced in the institute in which training
in the sectors of solar installation, operation,
maintenance, design, solar cells, business
program, engineering and solar standards
were being provided.
Monday, January 26, 2015
BS, MS energy programmes to promote renewable energy lauded LAHORE: Solar Institute Lahore Director Engineer Faiz Muhammad Bhutta has appreciated the decision of Higher Education Commission to initiate BS and MS Energy System engineering programmes in various universities for promoting renewable energy sector in the country. Talking to APP here on Sunday, he said the country was facing energy crisis and lack of education and awareness about solar system was a major hurdle in expansion of solar system which could resolve energy crisis. He said that launching of BS and MS Energy System programmes in universities would help in promoting solar renewable energy sector in the country. The director said that first solar institute has been set up in the provincial capital by the private sector in which solar training programmes have been started to develop expert human resource about solar energy. He said that it was the first private institute in the country which was providing research and training services. He said that people from industry, commercial and government could get training from the institute and can bring revolution in field of solar design and products after getting certificates. He said that Skill Development Fund has played effective role in developing expert human resource while Solar Institute was also cooperating with Skill Development Fund.
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REGIONAL
India gets $4 billion solar energy promise
U.S. secretary of state praises country's renewable
energy commitments.
By Daniel J. Graeber | Jan. 12, 2015 at 9:39 AM
AHMEDABAD, India, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- With New Delhi
praised for its renewable energy role, Indian
conglomerate Adani Enterprises said it signed a $4
billion solar agreement with a U.S. company.
Adani signed a memorandum of understanding
with solar energy services company SunEdison to
produce enough solar panels to develop a
sustainable green power sector in India.
The agreement was signed on the sidelines of an
Indian investment conference, attended by U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry. From auto giant Ford
Motor Co., to companies like SunEdison, the
Secretary of state there were billions of dollars
worth of new investments targeting the vibrant
economy in India.
Clean energy, Kerry said, "offers an enormous
amount of economic opportunity to all of our people,
both of our countries."
Both sides expect about 4,500 direct and 15,000
indirect jobs will be created at the facility.
Construction should take about four years.
"India has embarked on an ambitious program
to become a world leader in power generation
from renewable technologies, and sees solar as
a key part in realizing that goal," Vneet S Jaain,
chief executive officer of subsidiary Adani Power
Ltd., said in a statement Saturday.
Adani and SunEdisn under the terms of the
agreement pledged to create a vertically integrated
solar manufacturing facility in India, which will be
the largest facility of its kind in the country.
"By pairing SunEdison's solar technology expertise
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GLOBAL
French-German cooperation confirms competitive advantage of European photovoltaic industry Press Release 26/14, December 1, 2014 Bernin, France and Freiburg, Germany
IV characteristics of the new 4-junction solar cell with an efficiency of 46% at 50.8 W/cm2 which corresponds to a concentration ration of 508 times the solar AM1.5d (ASTM E927-10) spectrum.
A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been established. The multi-junction solar cell converts 46% of the solar light into electrical energy and was developed by Soitec and CEA-Leti, France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany. Multi-junction cells are used in concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems to produce low-cost electricity in photovoltaic power plants, in regions with a large amount of direct solar radiation. It is the cooperation’s second world record within one year,
after the one previously announced in September 2013, and clearly demonstrates the strong competitiveness of the European photovoltaic research and industry.
Multi-junction solar cells are based on a selection of III-V compound semiconductor materials. The world record cell is a four-junction cell, and each of its sub-cells converts precisely one quarter of the incoming photons in the wavelength range between 300 and 1750 nm into electricity. When applied in concentrator PV, a very small cell is used with a Fresnel lens, which concentrates the sunlight onto the cell. The new record efficiency was measured at a concentration of 508 suns and has been confirmed by the Japanese AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), one of the leading centers for independent verification of solar cell performance results under standard testing conditions.
A special challenge that had to be met by this cell is the exact distribution of the photons among the four sub-cells. It has been achieved by precise tuning of the composition and thicknesses of each layer inside the cell structure. ”This is a major milestone for our French-German collaboration. We are extremely pleased to hear that our result of 46% efficiency has now been independently confirmed by AIST in Japan”, explains Dr. Frank Dimroth, project manager for the cell development at the German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE. “CPV is the most efficient solar technology today and suitable for all countries with high direct normal irradiance.”
Jocelyne Wasselin, Vice President Solar Cell Product Development for Soitec, a company headquartered in France and a world leader in high performance
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GLOBAL New world record for solar cell efficiency at 46%
semiconductor materials, says: “We are very proud of this new world record. It confirms we made the right technology choice when we decided to develop this four-junction solar cell and clearly indicates that we can demonstrate 50% efficiency in the near future.” She adds: “To produce this new generation of solar cells, we have already installed a line in France. It uses our bonding and layer-transfer technologies and already employs more than 25 engineers and technicians. I have no doubt that this successful cooperation with our French and German partners will drive further increase of CPV technology efficiency and competitiveness.”
About Soitec Soitec is an international manufacturing company, a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials at the frontier of the most exciting energy and electronic challenges. Soitec’s products include substrates for microelectronics (most notably SOI: Silicon-on-Insulator) and concentrator photovoltaic systems (CPV). The company’s core technologies are Smart Cut™, Smart Stacking™ and Concentrix™, as well as expertise in epitaxy. Applications include consumer and mobile electronics, microelectronics-driven IT, telecommunications, automotive electronics, lighting products and large-scale solar power plants. Soitec has manufacturing plants and R&D centers in France, Singapore, Germany and the United States. www.soitec.com About CEA-Leti (France) By creating innovation and transferring it to industry, Leti is the bridge between basic research and production of micro- and nanotechnologies that improve the lives of people around the world. Backed by its portfolio of 2,200 patents, Leti partners with large industrials, SMEs and startups to tailor advanced solutions that strengthen their competitive positions. It has launched more than 50 startups.
Its 8,000m² of new-generation cleanroom space feature 200mm and 300mm wafer processing of micro and nano solutions for applications ranging from space to smart devices. Leti’s staff of more than 1,700 includes 200 assignees from partner companies. Leti is based in Grenoble, France, and has offices in Silicon Valley, Calif., and Tokyo. www.leti.fr About Fraunhofer ISE With a staff of 1300, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, based in Freiburg, is the largest solar energy research institute in Europe. Fraunhofer ISE is committed to promoting energy supply systems which are sustainable, economic, safe and socially just. It creates the technological foundations for supplying energy efficiently and on an environmentally sound basis. To this end, the institute develops materials, components, systems and processes for energy efficiency, energy conversion, energy distribution and energy storage. The Institute is a member of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization. www.ise.fraunhofer.de