2000 photovoltaic specialists from around the world exchanged views on over 1000 scientific papers at the world’s largest scientific photovoltaic conference in Lisbon last week. Cyril Allenspach, a graduate of the Energy and Environmental Engineering program at the ZHAW School of Engineering, brought the prestigious Student Award in the PV System Engineering category to Winterthur. This for its laboratory measurements and its yield simulation of complexly shaded photovoltaic roofs, which yield important results for PV planners. We are pleased to have Cyril among the five award winners of the other categories in the club of the best PV research institutes UNSW Australia, NREL USA, TU-Delft, FhG ISE Freiburg and Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.
Just prior to the awards, Nancy Hagel, senior PV expert from NREL once again highlighted the prominent role of photovoltaics globally, which accounted for more than half of the newly added capacity of all forms of electricity generation last year and is expected to grow by 25 percent globally over the next decade. Also, in 2022, the total amount of electricity generated worldwide from solar and wind was one-third higher than the amount of electricity generated from nuclear power.
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