Topics:

1. Rural Electrification: Solar Home Systems

2. Rural Electrification: Power for Infrastructure

3. Industrial Applications (e.g. Telecommunication)

4. Integrated Systems and Products (e.g. Picosystems and Street Lights)

Regarding the following aspects:

• Components
• Systems
• Capacity Building, Maintenance, Ownership
• Market Development, Financing, Distribution Channels

06.06.11 until 07.06.11

 pva3488_Travelinformation.pdf
 pva3488_Sponsor_Agreement.pdf
 cfppva3488.pdf

Deutschland, Ulm, University of Applied Sciences Ulm

[Location details and directions]

Conference Chairman:

Dr. Hansjörg Gabler

Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Hansjörg Gabler held responsible positions at two German Solar Research Institutes and at the Physics Department of a German University. To him, remote electrification is the most distinguished application of Photovoltaic Solar Energy because it may help to make the world a better place.

Co-Chairman:

Prof. Dr. Shahidul I. Khan

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engieneering, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Scientific Committee:

Prof. Peter Adelmann

University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany

Georg Bopp

Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg,Germany

Prof. Dr. Walter Commerell

University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, Germany

Prof. Boaventura Cuamba

Eduarde Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Dr. Izael Da Silva

Makerere University (CREEC - Centre for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation), Kampala, Uganda

Dr. Hansjörg Gabler

ZSW, Stuttgart, Germany

Dr. Carsten Hellpap

Deutsche Gesellschaft f. Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Eschborn, Germany

Prof. Manfred Horn

National Engineering University (UNI), Lima, Peru

Prof. Bin-Juine Huang

New Energy Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Prof. Dr. Shahidul I. Khan

BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Michael Müller

Steca, Memmingen, Germany

Kilian Reiche

World Bank, Washington D.C.,USA

Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer

RWTH, Aachen, Germany

Michael Wollny

SMA, Niestetal, Germany

Prof. Dr. Roberto Zilles

University Saõ Paulo, Brazil

In the shadow of the exploding market for grid connected Photovoltaics, there grows a beautiful and vigorous flower. We are speaking of the market for ‘Small PV Applications‘, which delivers light to remote rural homes or electricity for remote infrastructure equipment in industrialised and in developing countries. This is a most interesting part of the PV world. Estimations, uncertain as they may be, speak of 150 MW of PV power which is installed annually in small off-grid applications, they speak of stable annual market growth rates of 10 to 15 percent, in terms of money they speak of an annual turnover of well over one billion euro.
The bigger part of this market segment is not depending on political support of renewable energies: for small off-grid needs of electricity, PV is often the least cost solution under first investment, operation cost and reliability aspects.
We are preparing for you, the experts for small PV applications, for component development and production, for system layout and optimization, for market development and financing, a symposium which shall be dedicated in particular to the questions of small ‘off-grid‘ electricity supply with PV. The forthcoming symposium is the follower of a first meeting which was held in May 2009 at the same place and under the same title. The success of this first symposium which was attended by a very interested audience of 160 persons coming from 42 countries was encouraging enough to continue this series of symposia.
The first initiative came from industry. The University of Applied Sciences, Ulm, which will host the symposium, the Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff Forschung (ZSW) in Stuttgart and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg discussed the first concepts. A scientific committee, selected from the most experienced actors worldwide from industry, from academia and from market development and financing will guide the process of selecting speakers and publications.

• We suggest to concentrate on the following fields of applications:
• power for remote rural households in systems which do not need a distribution grid, known as ‘Solar Home Systems‘,
• power for off-grid civil infrastructure like schools, clinics, churches, mosques and temples, administration offices, water pumping plants or street lighting,
• power for industrial infrastructure like those for  telecommunication equipment or remote sensing,
• power for integrated equipment which ‘needs no power supply‘ like solar lanterns, solar radios, mobile phone chargers, known today as ‘picosytems‘.

We hope, that you will be open to discuss all aspects of these small PV applications, from the components, including the batteries or other alternatives for energy storage, to the systems, from market development and distribution channels to the avenues of financing.
As the chairmen of this second ‘Symposium on Small PV Applications‘ it is our pleasure to invite you. Hoping to meet you in June 2011 for the most interesting exchange of experience, for presentations of the state of the art and of new developments and hopefully also for the common development of a larger vision for this fascinating field.

Dr. Hansjörg Gabler

ZSW Stuttgart, Germany

Prof. Dr. Shahidul I. Khan

BUET Dhaka, Bangladesh

 

A colourful and fascinating group of people from all continents who are interested in the topic as:

• manufacturers, suppliers and installers of small pv systems for remote industrial use
• manufacturers, suppliers and installers of small pv systems for rural electrification
• energy consultants, politicians and rural electrification programme planners
• financiers from banks and foundations
• students, engineers and scientists

• Description of existing Markets and the State of Art Technology
• Open Discussion of good and of bad Examples of Systems and of Distribution Strategies
• Development of a Vision for small PV Applications, their T­echnologies and their Markets

	Afrisolar e. V.
	Alliance for Rural Electrification
	EPIA - European Photovoltaic Industry Association
	EUREC - European Renewable Energy Research Centres Agency
	GTZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GmbH
	Hochschule Ulm

The one and a half-day programme for this symposium will  comprise

• Invited lectures
• Oral presentations
• Posters

Language of the symposium will be English.

Papers will be presented orally and in poster sessions. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings volume. The abstract, in English, should include:

Full title, author’s full name, affiliation, address, phone/fax/e-mail, name and affiliation of co-authors, topic, kind of presentation (oral or poster), a brief summary including the purpose, methods, approach, results and conclusions of the presented work.

The whole on ONE sheet A4. In addition, authors may add up to 1 explanatory page to facilitate the reviewer’s assessment.

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: November 5^th, 2010

Please upload your abstract in our review system under: http://review.otti.eu

In December you will receive an e-mail with the result of the evaluation.

With the acceptance of your abstract you are automatically registered for the conference. It is not possible to cancel once accepted.

If you are accepted please upload the ready for printing  manuscript

(6 pages) in our review system by April 15^th, 2011.

Eckardt Günther
Gabriele Struthoff-Müller

OTTI e.V.
Renewable Energies

Wernerwerkstraße 4,
93049 Regensburg, Germany

Phone +49 941 29688-29
Fax     +49 941 29688-54

gabriele.struthoff-mueller@otti.de

Conference Venue

University of Applied Sciences Ulm

Campus Aula
Prittwitzstr. 10
89075 Ulm, Germany

Phone     +49 731 50-28102

info@hs-ulm.de

Accommodation

Please book your accommodation as soon as possible by yourself.
A list of hotels can be found under: http://www.otti.de/pdf/pva3488_Travelinformation.pdf
www.hotel.de

If registered until April 15^th, 2011
Per Person:    € 480,00
Member of OTTI:    € 380,00

If registered after April 15^th, 2011
Per Person:    € 580,00
Member of OTTI:    € 450,00

Reduced fee for Presenters:    € 280,00
Employees of  Universities:    € 350,00

From the third participant on, every other participant of your company profits from our 15% discount on the conference fee.

Fees cover admission to all sessions, invitation to all coffee breaks, a lunch, a dinner and the conference proceedings.

Visit Ulm  – Ulm‘s main sights are the minster, with the tallest church spire in the world, the captivating old town and quaint fishermen‘s quarter, Wiblingen Abbey and Neu-Ulm, Ulm‘s modern „sister town“ across the Danube.

Location/travel:

Rail: Ulm main station (Hauptbahnhof): ICE/IC/EC trains; also regional trains (IR and NZ)

By road: A7, A8

Airports: Stuttgart, Munich, Memmingen