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• Increasing voltage, increasing efficiency – as pv systems in europe head towards
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• Installation cost-savers – Discover how ease of installation will improve your plants
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• Optimising from beginning to end – Hear how current projects in europe and the Us
are pioneering efficiency in projects from inception to operations and maintenance
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The European PV market – against this backdrop, it is more vital than • System design considerations that reduce
a changing industry ever that you harvest every kilowatt-hour labour, wiring materials and overall costs
possible from your plant. For this reason, • Component manufacturers speak on
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reached 6.7 GW in 2010. italy installed 2.85 GW
smart move. selection & integration, optimal design,
in 2010 reaching a total of 7GW and the Czech
Republic gained huge momentum with 1.3GW. and O+m to an advanced technical level of
Balance of Systems – the detail – covering every major component and
The pv market benefited from favourable differentiator at a critical time technology: inverter reliability & durability,
feed-in tariffs, plunging module prices and mounting, corner junction boxes, wiring
improving Bos involves evaluating your
rising efficiencies throughout the last few design, string level monitoring, inverter
system by looking at plant design, component
years and months and in italy alone, module monitoring, 1-axis & 2-axis trackers,
selection and integration and predicting how
prices dropped by 42.2% between the fourth grounding lugs, roof membranes and more.
every change will affect costs and overall
quarter of 2008 and third quarter of 2010. output. it avoids the buy and try approach
Your technical questions answered
to engineering. simply, when you focus on
With such great progress, the future should should you take a hit on initial costs and
Bos - your system’s life expectancy goes up.
be bright for pv, but confidence is plummeting shoot for for long-term efficiency, or keep
2011 will be a pivotal transition period in the
and support for the technology is shaken... initial costs low? are fixed tilt or 1-axis and
pv market where we move from a subsidy
2-axis trackers the best option? How do you
driven market to a lCOe driven market, and
reconcile projected vs actual performance?
From subsidy motivated to put simply, Bos is the critical key in order to
all these questions and more are tackled at
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Despite fantastic technical advances, drastic numbers show that cost cuts in Bos are not technical facts and figures you need to make
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3. leading european speaker line up
expert pv Bos speakers TOp neTWORKinG
Javier abans iglesias
Construction manager, 9rEN TOp inFORmaTiOn
The PV Balance of Systems Conference & Expo offers you
Juan m. Fernández
the unique opportunity to get crucial technical information
am pv plant performance, BP Solar
and invaluable face time with the people that matter. By
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pv Quality and R&D manager, Enertis
David Wortmann
Government affairs Germany, First Solar
1 Online Access To All Delegates
Message clients and new contacts, arrange
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Holger Tralls
system Technology Team, Juwi
stefan De Haans
2 25+ Expert Speakers
Expert speakers from Developers, EPCs and
Technology Providers, ready to pass on a wealth of
senior analyst, iSuppli experience at this one-of-a-kind event
Christian pho Duc
vice president, Nanosolar 3 All New BoS Business Groups
Break out sessions discussing how do you
implement engineering knowledge on ground mount
Representative TBC and roof mount systems from the conference back
Leonardo Energy to the office. So you can meet business objectives on
current and future projects
anton naebauer
Director R&D, Gehrlicher
Representative TBC
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armin Fischer
pv project Fulfilment, Bosch Solar Energy
Dieter Riedel
5 Exclusive Networking Drinks Party
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Teamleader Technology & innovation,
Phoenix Solar
alexander Bischoff
senior engineer pv-inverter Technology &
new For This event!
innovation, Phoenix Solar Interactive working Group Discussion Focused
Reza shaybani sessions on Ground Mount and Roof Mount Bos
Chairman, British PhotoVoltaic Association
BoS costs include; initiation and origination; financing and
Gonzalo Ruiz de angulo Gómez contracting; system design and procurement; permitting,
project Finance energy, BBVA testing and inspecting; site preparation, installation and
testing; operation, monitoring and maintenance.
Rosa Tarrago But these issues are vastly different when considering
project manager, KfW Ground Mounted or roof Mounted Systems, and you need
the know-how to be able to apply the best combination of
valentin Hollain components to your PV system.
senior scientist, Eurosolar This session will explore ways
to overcome these challenges,
eduardo soria with input from top European
Business Development and sales manager, installers with real experience.
Langely rinnovabili
Tom skwarek We´ve got significant interest in addition to this
managing Director and Head: strategy excellent line up of top speakers and we are adding
speakers to the program every day!
solution, Swiss re
Jing Tian, FOr FurTHEr iNFOrMATiON
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The European PV market - is The installer & EPC perspective Power Electronics: inverters –
balance of systems a crucial • Hear about the experiences of installers, This critical BoS topic will be covered
differentiator? epCs and developers against changing in-depth during 3 focused sessions:
• Get the latest on the state of the European module and Bos costs in the european inverter costs: Budgeting for
market and gain insight into Bos costs and market, to understand how top companies the right inverter
development that will propel your project have been tackling Bos issues in the last • Detailed look at the balance between
towards higher profit margins year amount of inverters versus other costs –
• Understand the relationship between balance • What are the quick wins for your project? learn how inverters can make a difference
of system costs, module costs and the Understand the elements of Bos to efficiency that will improve plant output
efficiency of both. Find out how pv developers optimisation that you can tackle today, • What are the available solutions and
are turning to balance of systems as a new from inverter selection to wiring that will suppliers that can help reduce your
and innovative way to increase overall boost your plant efficiency inverter cost and maximise plant yield?
profit margins • How do you manage your supply chain, match the right inverter solution to realise
stefan De Haans, senior analyst, isuppli capacity planning and string planning your project’s objective
to avoid costly surprises? ensuring you
inverter reliability: protecting
protect your bottom line!
Country Focus – Feed-in Tariffs and your plant output
anton naebauer, Director R&D, Gehrlicher
costs, the impact of a market in flux • Understand how manufacturers prepare
armin Fischer, pv project Fulfilment, for inverter failure - What does the long
• An in-focus look at European markets for Bosch solar energy
pv - including italy, Germany, spain, France term cost and loss in efficiency look like
Dieter Riedel, Team leader Technology & and how does this affect your overall
and the UK, where representatives from each
innovation, phoenix solar Bos?
will give a full run-down of the incentives and
challenges faced • Get to grips with the service agreements
investment opportunities in PV available to ensure your plant secures
• Understand how changes in incentive and
regulatory structures will impact your cost and the importance of BoS in every kwh of energy that guarantees
framework and what you need to do in order securing project finance higher harvested power to electricity
to be price competitive in these markets • Hear from banks and VCs on the production ratios
• Hear a run-down on the incentive changes importance of ROi and what they consider • Fail to prepare, prepare to fail, be ready
and role the Bos industry needs to play in before investing in a project, including for success – Gain insight into inverter
developing technical advancements to meet capacity for Bos cost reduction and degradation and it’s Bos impact, so you
these new market challenges efficiency enhancement can prevent failure and protect against
• Assess the impact of falling module prices • Understand how BoS can be the costly downtime
and the impact this has had on system costs differentiator between securing and losing alexander Bischoff, senior engineer
covered by Bos investment, especially with module costs pv-inverter Technology & innovation,
splintering across the market phoenix solar
Germany Representative: David Wortmann,
Government affairs Germany, First solar • Uncover the data banks are looking for on inverter design: maximising DC output
UK Representative: Reza shaybani, the Bos part of your project before they • How do you balance the risk factor and
British photovoltaic Association invest economies of scale argument when
europe Representative: valentin Hollain, Gonzalo Ruiz de angulo Gómez, deciding between distributed inverters
senior scientist, eurosolar project Finance energy, BBVA or one large inverter? Hear the experts
Tom skwarek, managing Director and Head: Rosa Tarrago, project manager, Kfw opinion on the best strategy on cost and
strategy solution, swiss Re efficiency
a-Z of components, selection, • Discover new generation inverters and
Focus on your rOi – is BoS the key how they can provide power harvesting
efficiency and cost and management solutions for utility
to LCOE and can risk ever
scale solar plants
be eliminated? Cabling design & material
moderator: eduardo soria, Business
• What are the potential cost and LCOE issues choices Development and sales manager,
when pv systems aren’t reliable? Find out the • Is reducing costs the best solution? Langely Rinnovabili
risks involved so you are better equipped with Copper or aluminium? short term yield or
a plan to address these pricey situations long term profit? Hear how improvements Storage: Driving towards PV
• Figure out the best method to calculate the in efficiency will in fact increase your
lCOe and how to find a balance between
dispatchable power?
most accurate lCOe – what values should
be used to provide the most accurate cost and efficiency • Get the latest on batteries, discover
cost:profit ratio • Find out the best way to secure a durable new innovations and designs such as
wiring system and guard against compressed air storage and get the latest
Representative TBC, IpsOL energy
unexpected surges that could destroy on why storage is becoming a crucial part of
equipment and impact your yield Bos
• Evaluate the role of corner junction boxes • Where to store? Evaluating the up’s and
and how they can limit the amount of wire down’s of putting in storage capacity on the
needed to connect to modules and lower aC side or DC side
your labour and material cost valentin Hollain, senior scientist, eurosolar
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5. more information, more dialogue, more debate
Mounting systems: Tracker • Calculate the differences between roof and Modelling: Testing reliability &
solutions and rOi ground mount systems in the Bos when it predicting downtime
comes to losses, costs, technical challenges
• Assess 1-axis and 2-axis trackers – find and investment capacity • Gain critical pre construction reliability
out the real value gained from small prediction to evaluate design feasibility,
improvements in sunlight uptake that will Jorge Coello Rodríguez, pv Quality and R&D compare design alternatives, identify
make the crucial difference to your lCOe manager, enertis potential failure areas, trade-off system
• Tracker reliability vs static mounting , get design factors and track reliability
improvement
data from the experts with mWs experience Balance of systems – Bringing
that will help you make the best design • Post construction reliability tools that
decisions all components together for will provide you warranty data analysis &
• When does disturbed make sense? Get optimum performance degradation data analysis that will preempt
a full run down on how to assess the decreased efficiency or system failure
tracking capacity of your installation based EPC & installer Case Studies: Representative TBC, IpsOL energy
on module size, location and production Optimising BoS through plant layout
O&M and system monitoring
• Save money from start to finish and get real
Mounting systems: Easing data on how to save money from labour • Develop a strategy that will enable you
installation to wiring, modelling to O&m, to accurately to monitor multiple sites (distributed and
predict the bottom line for your project utility) so that you can compare data &
• Is plug and play imminent? Hear about the
quickly attend to weaker plants in your
advancements made in 2011 that promise • Get the behind the scenes perspective from
portfolio
to improve ease of installation and reduce leading pv plants, find out if the plants
deliver the expected output and the steps • Find out how to keep your optimally
material cost against labour cost
you need to take to emulate their success designed plant optimally running and
• Prevent catastrophic failure and minimize maintain the output your investors are
downtime on ground & roof mount systems • From design board to digging in the ground:
expecting to see
by learning the ways to protect against arm yourself with lessons learned when
constructing a perfectly optimised system • Balancing so many components requires
unforeseen circumstances such as leakage
an intelligent system - hear about the
on roofs, or wind loading on the ground Juan m. Fernández, am pv plant performance,
solutions available that include inverter
Bp solar
• Take a detailed look at the strength & communication and per module monitoring
weight of foundation, and frame structures Javier abans iglesias, Construction manager,
that enable you to speedily troubleshoot the
to provide economical long term plant 9Ren
pv array
performance Representative TBC, sunpower
Working with EPCs
Manufacturing with BoS in mind – • Procurement, construction, installation – interactive roundtables
the manufacturer’s perspective: how do epCs work for you and how can you
tap into their knowledge? BoS for Ground Mounted
• Get the latest on how module
manufacturers can integrate Bos
• Geographical challenges – what will a Systems
local epC know that you don’t, and what special considerations for Ground
considerations from day one of module
considerations do you need to account for in Mounted BOs
design to manufacturing
terms of regulation
• Discover simple, cost efficient processes of Case scenarios include:
eduardo soria, Business Development and
manufacturing and installation that can be • The best O+M strategy for large scale
sales manager, Langely Rinnovabili
implemented from the beginning of your plants
project and significantly impact total energy • The geotechnical nature of varying plant
Standards: Enhancing Component
production locations and configuring an optimal
Performance
• Benefit from hearing manufacturers plant layout
analyse the combined efficiency of both • Comprehensive look at the European
• Strategies to manage a supply chain,
the panel & Bos considerations necessary product standards: industry leaders discuss
and avoid the common costly challenges
to fit the appropriate size of project, from how and when this will be expanded so you
small to utility scale are equipped with Bos components that
boost plant performance BoS for roof Mounted Systems
Christian pho Duc, vice president, nanosolar special considerations for Roof
• Global PV growth means you need to
understand how eU components fit with Mounting systems BOs
Case study: Assessing plants from global pv installations and will ensure the Case scenarios include:
the BoS angle from 5MW to 20MW same efficiency gains • Designs that will maximise the amount
– characteristics of size • Find out the steps you need to take to of modules possible in square area
• Hear from operators of 5, 10 and 20 MW ensure your Bos components are up to • How do you upgrade an existing building
plants and understand how size affects scratch and complementing the whole and retrofit with ease and in budget?
Bos gains and losses system
• Strategies and solutions that will protect
• Assess cabling and inverter needs for Representative TBC, Leonardo energy the roof and maintain the expected plant
varying sizes of systems and work out the Holger Tralls, system Technology Team, Juwi output
optimum size for your plant
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