Pillar 1 - Affordable and Reliable VRE

Pillar Lead: Yibo Wang (View more: Green Powered Future Mission (mi-gpfm.org))

Introduction: Led by China, this pillar aims to reduce cost and increase efficiency, resilience, and reliability of VRE technologies in various climates and system configurations. The Tipping Points to support these efforts are: 

• TP1.1 – Novel PV technologies breaking the efficiency ceiling of 29%, and PV cell and systems able to provide high-efficiency, low-cost and high reliability of electricity in different  climates and in extreme weather events.

• TP1.2 – Offshore wind technologies including 10 to 20 MW wind turbines and offshore floating wind power plants. Bring their efficiency and  generation costs close to onshore wind to  enable wide deployment in coastline, islands, offshore platforms, etc.

• TP1.3 – Improve forecasting tools with error margins below 6% and a reliable estimation 24 hours ahead of the productivity of PV and wind power units. 

• TP1.4 – Demonstration of VRE-based island and off-grid applications to provide electricity as well as heat, desalination and/or H₂ production with up to 100% VRE. Demonstrating  new technologies and hardware for high-efficiency grid-integration and grid-support of PV and wind.

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