The relevance of the seminar is determined by the approved strategy of the EU for a “green transition” by 2050 (The European Green Deal) and the gradual abandonment of fossil energy sources. Ukraine has joined the Green Deal based on a range of criteria, developing generation of electricity from renewable sources, including the photovoltaics segment.
Fedir Bohodyst, a leading specialist of ENERGO-PLUS in the sphere of alternative energy, shared the history of the development of this industry and his own work experience.
The participants of the training discussed the changes in photovoltaic technologies over the past 10 years, the technological features of all elements of solar energy, and the evolution of solar power station productivity, as well as its increasing share in total electricity generation.
Remarkably, Ukraine and its domestic enterprises in the energy and electrical engineering sectors have unique experience and innovative developments in the sphere of renewable energy. In 2012-2014, the country was among the global leaders in terms of the growth of alternative energy capacities. The timely passed Law on the Electricity Market and Law on Alternative Energy Sources speeded up the development of not only large industrial solar power plants but also the household application of solar panels.
In fact, in spite of the large-scale aggression and temporary occupation of a range of territories, Ukraine has an extensive distributed generation network with thousands of solar installations of various capacities.
However, further development of solar energy depends on prompt responses to a number of technical challenges. This particularly concerns the issues of operational management of unstable generation. The volume of photovoltaic electricity production remains and will remain heavily dependent on the time of day, the season, and weather conditions, which seriously complicates the work of network operators in urgent need of technical solutions for quick responses to such peaks and faults in generation.
Therefore, the training highlighted the upsides and downsides of energy storage stations and the principles for selecting them when installing energy facilities. In addition, the specialists of ENERGO-PLUS exchanged views on the prospects of development of the large-capacity energy storage systems as a response to the challenges of solar generation development.
