Only if a PV system achieves the expected lifetime and delivers the performance it was designed for the inverstors can expect that their investment will be successful. 

However - even if PV systems are considered to be “simple” – there are multiple error sources during design, construction and operation phase which can violate the system performance. ­Either temporarily - or even worse permanently.

This venue targets to highlight some of the measures to avoid or eliminate the most important failures, to identify preventive measures or refurbishment approaches as well as solution approaches to deal with new challenges for PV plant operators. 

Deutschland, München-Dornach, NH Hotel

[Location details and directions]

Eckardt Günther, Anita Scheidacker and Franziska Smolarek

OTTI  -  Renewable Energies
Wernerwerkstraße 4
93049 Regensburg, Germany

Phone     +49 941 29688-58
Fax     +49 941 29688-54

franziska.smolarek@otti.de

• Engineers (Plant Design, Construction, Commissioning)
• PV System Installers
• PV Plant Operators
• Due Dilligence Advisors
• Investors
• Banks & Lenders

Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Bächler

General Manager, PerVorm GmbH

Manfred Bächler (Electrical Engineer) was working in different fields of Photovoltaic since 1990 and has in-depth experience in design, construction, monitoring, operation & maintenance, failure detection and repair of large scale PV systems. From 2000 – 2010 he was as CTO of Phoenix Solar AG responsible for the global activities of the large scale system department. In 2011 he founded PerVorm GmbH – a company focusing on repair of distressed PV plants.

Dipl-Ing. Samir Merzoug

General Manager, SUNCYCLE GmbH, Hamburg

Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Obst

General Manager, 8.2 Ingenieurpartnerschaft Obst & Ziehmann, Ingenieurbüro für erneuerbare Energien, Hamburg

Dipl. Ing. Robert Pfatischer

General Manager, meteocontrol GmbH, Augsburg

Dipl.-Ing. Lars Rulf

General Manager, reniva GmbH, Ulm

Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Schimpf

Consultant Special Projects, Gehrlicher AG, Neustadt bei Coburg

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Schneider

General Manager, meteocontrol GmbH, Augsburg

Dipl.-Phys. Bernhard Schowe-von der Brelie

Executive Manager / Deputy Director FGH Certification Office
FGH GmbH & Forschungsgemeinschaft für Elektrische Anlagen und Stromwirtschaft (FGH) e. V., Mannheim-Rheinau

Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Weinreich

Senior System Engineer, Solarschmiede GmbH, München

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Check-in and Welcome Coffee 9.00 hrs

9.30 - 17.15 hrs Welcome and opening

Dipl.-Kfm. Eckardt Günther, OTTI e. V., Regensburg

Quality Assurance for Large Power Plants

1.    Technical Due Dilligence

• Site Selection
• Planning
• Construction Phase
• Commissioning
• Warranty Comissioning

Dipl.-Ing. Dietmar Obst

2.    Certification/Rating System for Large PV Plants

• PV systems can be considered as a “financial” product
• Rating systems from the financial sector
• Proposal for a rating system for PV plants

Dipl. Ing. Robert Pfatischer

Operation & Maintenance Phase

3.    O&M Requirements

• Site keeping
• Preventive Maintenance
• Failure/Repair Work
• Spare Parts Management
• Pricing Models

Dipl.-Ing. Lars Rulf

4.    IR Photography for large scale systems

• Pros & Cons, Limitations
• Large Area Survey for very large systems
• Field samples, Failures

Dipl.-Ing. Bernhard Weinreich

PV Market Models and Issues outside the Feed-in-Tariff umbrella

5.    New Market Models for PV Systems – Direkt Marketing and Sales of PV Electricity

• Status Quo and exisiting boundary conditions
• Technical and operational requirements
• Relevanz of energy yield prediction models

Dipl.-Ing. Martin Schneider

6.    Needs and Benefits for plant certification for grid connection and operation

• PV Plant Certification Requirements for grid operation
• Starting problems, bottlenecks, current status
• Outlook and upcoming requirements in Europe

Dipl.-Phys. Bernhard Schowe-von der Brelie

After Sales Phase

7.    Large Volume Module Testing/Screening in the field and workshop

• Systematic fault diagnostics­ in the field (large volumes)
• Replacements and Refurbishment Approaches
• Trade-offs and Lessons learned

Samir Merzoug

8.    Dismantling costs of large scale PV Plants

• Boundary conditions and assumptions
• Cost expections and revenues for modules, supporting structures, cables, inverters, etc...
• Worst case / Best case scenarios

Dipl.-Ing. Siegfried Schimpf

    Discussion and Summary

Dipl.-Ing. Manfred Bächler

This venue will provide you valuable insights in many aspects of PV Power Plants: Starting with the needs, limitations and benefits of quality assurance aspects in design, component selection, construction and commissioning and PV system certification in addition crucial issues during long-term PV Plant operation will be addressed. This includes failure detection efforts as well as remedies and refurbishment approaches and cost/benefit analysis for PV plant dismantling at end of life. Finally an outlook on challenges and solution approaches for the operation outside the “umbrella” of Feed-in-tariff systems will be provided.

Seminar Fees  

Per Person:    € 500,00      
Member of OTTI:    €   460,00  
Reduced fee for employees of Federal Agencies, Universities and Universities of 
Applied Sciences:    €   300,00 

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

Fees cover the invitation to all coffee breaks, the lunch and the seminar proceedings.

NH Hotel München-Dornach

Einsteinring 20
85609 Aschheim-Dornach, Germany

Phone:    +49 89 940096-707
Fax:    +49 89 940096-100

nhmuenchendornach@nh-hotels.com 

Please book your accomodation as soon as possible by yourself.

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