World Solar Technology Summit | UPSC

WORLD SOLAR TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT

AIM

• The objective of the event is to bring the spotlight on state-of-the-art technologies as well as next-generation technologies.
• This will provide impetus to the efforts towards harnessing the solar energy more efficiently.

FOCUS

• These can be commercially made available to all parts of the world for the wider consumption.
• The event will hold four technical sessions that would be available in English, Spanish, French & Arabic.

TIMELINE

First World Solar Technology Summit being organized by ISA on a virtual platform on September 08, 2020.

ORGANISERS

ISA Assembly and Union Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy (IC) and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship.

SIGNIFICANCE

• The event will drive the necessary growth of solar energy around the world through innovations.

• The First World Solar Technology Summit will help identify technologies that can ramp up solar deployment at an affordable cost.
• Further, mutual co-operation among the member countries has been the pillar of the solar PV revolution.

• The ISA envisions to enable the full ecosystem for availability and development of technology.
• It also focuses on economic resources, storage technology, mass manufacturing and innovation.
• The reduced cost of technology would enable the undertaking of more ambitious solar energy programmes.
• Successful project implementation could play significant role in achieving the universal energy access goal (SDG 7).

SESSION -1

VISION 2030 & BEYOND

• The overall context of PV technology development and its future, on its way towards becoming the first source of energy worldwide.
• With PV technologies supplying 70% of the world’s electricity generation.

SESSION -2

TOWARDS A DECARBONISED GRID

• The most recent advances (conversion efficiency improvements and declining costs) regarding key components and storage technologies.

SESSION -3

DISRUPTIVE SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES

• On-grid applications, whether ground-mounted, floating, or integrated in residential and commercial rooftops.

SESSION -4

SOLAR BEYOND THE POWER SECTOR

• Innovative applications where PV is used to move, heat, cool, and drive eco-friendly industrial processes.
• They produce fuels as well as off-grid applications, to provide universal access to energy.

ABOUT ISA

The ISA has 67 countries as ISA has six programmes viz.

• Solar Applications for Agricultural Use
• Affordable Finance at Scale
• Mini Grids
• Solar Rooftops 
• Solar E-mobility & Storage
• Large-Scale Solar Parks.