The solar photovoltaic market is more mature and intelligent

As we become more mature, experience leads us to see more opportunities, to deal better with good and bad situations, to make fewer mistakes.

This healthy and continuous maturing process is valid for any area of life and is also observed in companies, organisations and markets. It would be no different with the solar energy sector, which is becoming smarter.

It is possible to observe this maturing of the Brazilian market in three trends for the near future. The growing participation of solar energy in the national energy matrix, with greater injection of surplus energy into the grid, will imply technical challenges for the ONS (National System Operator) to manage the grid.

In this entanglement, the sector seeks agreements around a regulation that balances the interests of the country and the players, while bringing more security to the entire system.

As part of this, the trend is that over the next few years we will start to see more differences in the price of energy by consumption time bands, which will affect the times at which we will use the energy generated and the times at which we will store it.

This relates to all the trends in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), carbon footprinting and green certificates. We will see more companies concerned with using only energy from renewable sources and obtaining carbon credits to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.

Another trend is that we will see much more integration between solar energy generation and its use, either by smart activation of loads and/or by integrations with forms of storage, not only with batteries, but also with electric cars. Cars do not stop being big batteries with wheels and we will be able to use them also as a form of storage.

The third trend is for photovoltaic solar power generation to become even safer. With the increasing representativeness of solar energy, it is time to give more relevance to issues such as safety, especially when solar plants are in places where there are people and storage of high-cost materials, for example.

In places such as the United States, Australia and some countries in Europe, safety features such as quick disconnect, SafeDC (to ensure that the output voltage of each module is reduced to a safe voltage whenever AC power is switched off) and arc flash protection, which were previously only recommended, are becoming mandatory.

It is more or less like what happened with items such as seat belts and airbags in cars. In the past, they were not compulsory, but gradually became so. Without a doubt, these are very welcome developments for the sector.

Source: www.canalsolar.com.br