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The fourth volume in the established Energy from the Desert series
examines and evaluates the potential and feasibility of Very Large
Scale Photovoltaic Power Generation (VLS-PV) systems, which have
capacities ranging from several megawatts to gigawatts, and to
develop practical project proposals toward implementing the VLS-PV
systems in the future. It comprehensively analyses all major issues
involved in such large scale applications, based on the latest
scientific and technological developments by means of close
international co-operation with experts from different countries.
From the perspective of the global energy situation, global
warming, and other environmental issues, it is apparent that VLS-PV
systems can: contribute substantially to global energy needs become
economically and technologically feasible soon contribute
significantly to global environmental protection contribute
significantly to socio-economic development. This book recognises
that very large scale solar electricity generation provides
economic, social and environmental benefits, security of
electricity supply and fair access to affordable and sustainable
energy solutions and that VLS-PV systems must be one of the
promising options for large-scale deployment of PV systems and
renewable energy technologies.
This is the final volume of a 3-volume history of solar power
generating systems covering the approximately 50 years of research
and development surrounding the energy crisis of 1973. Volume 1
focused on solar-thermal systems and the second volume on
photovoltaic systems in the 20th century. Volume 3 covers
photovoltaic developments from the start of the 21st century. The
history is based upon keynote lectures given by international
specialists at the Sede Boqer Symposia on Solar Electric Power
Production, a series that commenced in 1986. The lectures document
many technical details that have become hard to find, including
some pertaining to technologies that were successfully demonstrated
but subsequently discontinued owing to their not having been deemed
to be cost-effective at the time. However, in the event that
different economic considerations may ensue, these volumes can
provide a valuable starting point, including references, for the
re-investigation of some of those once abandoned ideas.
This is the second volume of a 3-volume history of solar power
generating systems covering the approximately 50 years of research
and development surrounding the energy crisis of 1973. Volume 1
covered solar-thermal systems. The present volume covers
photovoltaic systems in the 20th century. Volume 3 will cover
photovoltaic developments from the start of the 21st century. The
history is based upon keynote lectures given by international
specialists at the Sede Boqer Symposia on Solar Electric Power
Production, a series that commenced in 1986. The lectures document
many technical details that have become hard to find, including
some pertaining to technologies that were successfully demonstrated
but subsequently discontinued owing to their not having been deemed
to be cost-effective at the time. However, in the event that
different economic considerations may ensue, these volumes can
provide a valuable starting point, including references, for the
re-investigation of some of those once abandoned ideas.
This book documents the development of solar electric power plants,
reviewing their status during the decade that preceded the oil
crisis of 1973 and spanning the approximately 40 years that
followed. Its chapters contain, in historic order, a sequence of
keynote lectures by specialists, each indicating what was
considered to be important at the time. The lectures include
important details of some systems that were successfully
demonstrated but later abandoned due to economic considerations
that may not be relevant in the future.
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