European Photovoltaic technology development vision and strategic planning

Currently the European solar generator photovoltaic technology has begun to commercialize and has been widely used in Europe to improve its energy security, increase employment opportunities and improve the living conditions of citizens in remote areas to improve the welfare of civil society has played an increasingly important effect. With solar photovoltaic power generation system products are widely used in Europe, it is in improving Europe's energy supply security plays an increasingly important role and because it has a particularly suited to provide energy to remote areas of the characteristics, it is possible to improve education in these areas and the level of health care, providing more opportunities for economic development and to ease the flow of people in remote areas to big cities. In 2005 the European solar photovoltaic industry for the European citizens about 2500 jobs (per MWp production capacity will create 20 jobs per MWp installed capacity of the installation to create 30 jobs), although with the price of solar power systems decline in labor demand will decline, but with the rapid development of its market, will still provide more employment opportunities for Europe.

Europe the current price level of the solar photovoltaic power generation system enables solar power to meet the electricity demand during peak periods, and can alternate with other independent power systems: competition (such as diesel power generation system), but its price has not been reduced to the electricity consumers acceptable level.

Strategic Objectives: at European level the EU has developed to achieve by 2010 3GWp of the total installed capacity of portable solar generator development goals "of the European Community Strategy and Action Plan" white paper. In addition, the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform proposed in the early days in order to accelerate the development of sustainable energy power solar photovoltaic industry in Europe, and in 2030 making European solar photovoltaic power generation target of 4% of global reach. After the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform was established soon, solar photovoltaic technology Research Advisory Committee (PV-TRAC) released a report titled "Photovoltaic Technology Foresight", the report proposes a realistic and ambitious development goals: to make the EU's solar photovoltaic power system installed capacity in 2030 reached 200GWp (then the world's solar photovoltaic systems installed about 1000 GWp).

European technology platform in July 2007 released a strategic research agenda, the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform detailed description of its overall short-term research and development goals: By 2015, in southern Europe solar off grid solar system reaches the consumer price acceptable level, this goal can be quantified in the cost of solar photovoltaic power generation system for 0.15 euros / kwh, or the entire solar photovoltaic system price of 2.5 euros / Wp.