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Photovoltaics accelerates the structural transition to an efficient, intelligent world of energy with a high proportion of decentralised power generation. Photovoltaics therefore enables wide swathes of the population to participate in the supply of energy
have reached breakeven in Germany if, in line with assumptions, another six gigawatts (GW) of peak power are installed in 2011.
3. Measured against new gas and hard coal fired power stations, photovoltaics will be able to deliver competitive electricity in the next five to eight years. A precondition is a fair recognition of costs for both photovoltaics and for power stations generating electricity from conventional sources of energy. From this point onwards, tax plus grid costs can be levied on photovoltaic electricity, similar to conventional power.
4. Photovoltaics accelerates the structural transition to an efficient, intelligent world of energy with a high proportion of decentralised power generation. Photovoltaics therefore enables wide swathes of the population to participate in the supply of energy. In addition, it generates impetus for the development of innovative, decentralised energy systems and integrated applications, such as charging stations for electrical vehicles, which underpin Germany’s technological cutting edge in the field of renewable energies. Phoenix Solar has derived the following requirements and recommendations from the findings of the study:
The basis for calculating the differential costs must be adjusted to the actual conditions pertaining to the respective type of power generation. The cost of photovoltaic electricity must be compared with the electricity which it replaces at production times in the grid, specifically electricity generated by gas and hard coal-fired power stations. The result would be a notable reduction in the differential costs, which means that electricity consumers would pay much less.
A paradigm shift in the allocation of costs of conventional and renewable energies reflecting where these costs are incurred is necessary.
“Our long-standing doubt about the accuracy of how the differential costs has been calculated up until now has been confirmed through the findings of the study”, stated Dr. Andreas Hänel, Chief Executive Officer of Phoenix Solar. “Our intention with this study is to encourage the urgently needed discussion about the true value of photovoltaics.”
“It came as a surprise to us that the combination of sharp reductions in tariffs and the high volume of installed capacity in 2010 has enabled breakeven to be exceeded in Germany. Particularly against the background of the sharp criticism of government promotion under the German Renewable Energies Act (EEG), PV demonstrates its ability from an economic standpoint of contributing to the sustainable generating of electricity in Germany”, explained Jochen Hauff, leading author of the A.T. Kearney study.
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