Switzerland plans to install 37.5GW of pv by 2050 and will establish effective investment incentives
Switzerland plans to install 37.5GW of pv by 2050 and will establish effective investment incentives
The Swiss Federal Energy Agency (BFE) released the Energy Outlook 2050+ research report on 26 November 2020.
Installed pv capacity is expected to reach 37.5 gigawatts by 2050, a 13-fold increase compared to current installations, according to the report. In addition, photovoltaics will provide about 34 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity per year, accounting for about 40 percent of total consumption, including water pumps in some of the Alpine pumped storage plants, while solar power can meet 32 percent of total consumption even in autumn and winter.
The previous maximum projection in the Energy Outlook 2035 (2007) was 1.9TWh of solar capacity per year by 2035, which Switzerland achieved ahead of schedule in 2018.
However, the 34TWh capacity still falls short of Swissolar's projected annual solar capacity of 45TWh (50 gigawatts of installed photovoltaic capacity) by 2050, according to the book "Sun for Climate Protection" by National Assembly member Roger Nordmann. The discrepancy is due to government experts' fairly optimistic forecasts for the expansion of wind and hydropower (about 4TWh each) and for energy efficiency growth.
From an energy point of view, to achieve this goal, Switzerland would have to generate more than 1,000 megawatts of electricity per capita from 2025, up from about 400 megawatts this year. It also shows that this goal cannot be achieved under current policy conditions. So there is an urgent need for new financing tools to create incentives, especially in the construction of large-scale photovoltaic projects. Therefore, Switzerland is trying to promote the self-consumption of large photovoltaic systems through planned amendments to the Energy Law and parliamentary initiatives. (News from guangfu.bjx)
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