PHOTOVOLTAICS

The most advanced source of electricity

Dr. Uroš Merc, BISOL, d.o.o.President & CEO

ADVANCED SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY

• Renewable energy source (unlimited to humankind)

• Huge potential for use (exceeding the humankind’s prime energy needs by 8,000 times)

• Ecologically acceptable (no greenhouse or other gas emissions)

• Widely available (geopolitically independent)

• Reliable (the sun keeps on shining)

• State-of-the-art technology (result of modern semiconductor science)

• Distributed (applicable to small and large-scale PV plants)

• Aesthetical (compatible with the natural environment and diverse modern and traditional building designs)

• Modular (PV plant sizes vary from just a few watts to several MW)

• Robustness (wide operating temperature range under high mechanical loads)

• Ease of maintenance (reliable with minimum maintenance requirements)

• Way of operation (soundless)

• Cost competitive

ONE OF FASTEST GROWING INDUSTRIES

CARG: 50 %

CARG: 46 %

CARG: 59 %

PRODUCTION COST REDUCTION

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2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

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Yield Si consumption

Trend: 60 % cost reduction by 2012

Year 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

Cell thickness 180 m 170 m 160 m 150 m 120 m

COST COMPETITIVENESS OF PV

UNDERSTANDING POINTS OF GRID PARITY

UNDERSTANDING POINTS OF GRID PARITY

UNDERSTANDING POINTS OF GRID PARITY

NEW VIEW ON PRICE COMPETITIVENESS

- Inverter replacement every 15 years- 50 % PV system replacement after 25 years of operation

PVPP propertires:

Financing, NSV & costs:

Electrical properties:

SLOVENIA 2009 - WITH FEED-IN

NEW VIEW ON PRICE COMPETITIVENESS

- Inverter replacement every 15 years- 50 % PV system replacement after 25 years of operation

PVPP propertires:

Financing, NSV & costs:

Electrical properties:

SLOVENIA 2012 - WITHOUT FEED-IN

NEW VIEW ON PRICE COMPETITIVENESS

- Inverter replacement every 15 years- 50 % PV system replacement after 25 years of operation

PVPP propertires:

Financing, NSV & costs:

Electrical properties:

ITALY 2011 - WITHOUT FEED-IN

IMPORTANT CONCLUSIONS

• PV can become price competitive in more than 90 % of European electricity market by 2020 .

• With existing technology PV can supply 12 % of electricity demand in Europe by 2020 despite known electricity grid limits.

• To reach 12 % target PV will present more than 25 % of all newly installed electricity production capacities by 2020. This way, PV will become one of the major electricity sources in EU.

• Policy and industry must cooperate closely together in order to form technological development framework, promote innovation and cost reduction. Together they shall aim for competitive and supporting legislation.

• By the above means the role of PV industry is to strengthen its worldwide leading position and create millions of new high-technology working places.

POTENCIAL OF PHOTOVOLTAICS

Important: solar energy could satisfy 2/3 world energy needs in 2100.

Vir: Znanstveni svet nemške Vlade (2003)2020: PV - 1 % share of world el.2040: PV - 26 % share of world el.

Photovoltaics is an industry that has reached its full momentum and can no longer be reverted. As an important player in this industry, Slovenia must recognize the benefits of solar energy in its early stages

and create an important competitive advantage for the future, by promoting its own brand names.

2009: PV - 0,9 % el. share in Germany2010: PV - 2 % el. share in Germany2011: PV - 3 % el. share in Germany2020: PV - 10 % el. share in Germany

BISOL Group

Premium power from the sun!

BUSINESS NETWORK

LOCAL OFFICES:

FRANCE

ITALY

HEADQUARTERS & PRODUCTION FACILITIES:

SLOVENIA

Export markets

GREAT BRITAIN

Capacity in 2010: 100 MWCapacity in 2011: 200 MW(2 locations)

NEW MARKETS IN 2011 → UK & USA

BELGIUM

GERMANY

BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

EUROPEAN PRODUCER OF PREMIUM QUALITY PV MODULES

DEVELOPMENT OF OWN MOUNTING SYSTEM SOLUTIONS

OWN INVESTMENTS IN RENT-A-ROOF PROJECTS

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT- FP7 project member (All-inorganic nano-rod thin-film c-Si solar cells)

- Full member of EPIA

- Active partner of PV LEGAL

- SET plan (SEII)

- Founding member and president of ZSFI

- Member of BelPV

- TIA (1.1 M€ for R&D project in Slovenia)

- 40 % co-financing for R&D production equipment

- Scientific articles

- Strong cooperation with different R&D institutions

- Own state-of-the-art equipped testing laboratory (chemical lab., climate chamber, insulation tests, flash and steady state simulators, UV preconditioning, outdoor measurements, IR camera, etc.)

ALL THIS IS A REFLECTION OF BISOL‘s INNOVATIVE SPIRIT. THE ONLY WAY TO GUARANTEE OUR FUTURE!

CEZ, Czech RepublicInstalled power: 2.4 MWp

TAM, SloveniaInstalled power: 1 MWp

LARGE-SCALE PV POWER PLANTS

ZPO Celje, SloveniaInstalled power: 510 kWp

Intereuropa, SloveniaInstalled power: 1 MWp

Buče, SloveniaInstalled power: 403 kWp

Arcont, SloveniaInstalled power: 1 MWp