This document summarizes the results of the activities in WP1 and includes also information resulted from interaction among consortium partners and with the target groups during all the Solarise activities in progress. It is a guide package on legislation, market, technologies and best practices in the 3Seas region. Since the solar energy related legislation, market, costs models and hybrid/new technologies are in continuous changing, this document may reflect just the current situation and it may not be up to date in just a few months. Therefore it will be updated during the project lifetime to account for the continuous changes in legislation, market, technologies and new best practices developed meanwhile, including the Solarise-pilots.
The solar energy deployment in the 2Seas countries involved in the Solarise project, Belgium, France, Netherlands and UK, may be in the very near future negatively affected by Brexit, by the changes in economic policy with respect to the imports of PV-cells/panels from China (the main producer), by the smart metering measures and other EU, national or local measures. Despite the barriers and challenges solar energy harvesting is progressing well, but it can do much better the 2Seas countries as the factsheets in his report are showing.
The information related to the most important aspects for the successful deployment of solar energy harvesting is gathered in 7 factsheets, that summarize and update the findings and information from deliverables D1.1.1, D1.1.2., D1.2.1, D1.2.2., D1.3.1, D1.4.1 and D1.4.2. The textual version of each factsheet a is accompanied by visual representation of the most important findings, commonalities and country specific issues.
Best practices are important in order to gather ‘models’ of successful solar energy projects for developing own feasibility studies and pilots. However, it is not easy to give a simple definition of a ‘good practice’ for solar energy application, since it depends on the ranking based on one or more weighted evaluation criteria. Also, a ‘good’ PV-installation already operating for some 5-10 years has much lower performance (due to less performant PV- panels for example) than a newer and cheaper installation of the same size nowadays. So, care should be taken in evaluating and comparing the older ‘best practices’ and general information taken or added to solar installations databases.
Within Solarise a smaller database containing relevant and newer solar installations has been started with the contribution of the consortium partners. The collected information represent actually an extended set of best practices in solar energy harvesting in Belgium, France, Netherlands and UK. A few best practices are presented in this report in a condensed form, together with a short explanation of the main evaluation criteria.
We are just a few months away from the year 2020 and many EU countries still have a long-way ahead to reach the proposed 20-20-20 targets. Uptake of solar energy as proposed and exemplified by the Solarise project may be a step forward in reaching the 2020 and 2030 EU-targets.
