Dr Philippe Malbranche
General Manager
Institut National de l’Energie Solaire, CEA-INES, France.
Dr Philippe Malbranche, General Manager, Institut National de l’Energie Solaire, CEA-INES, France.
Solar electricity has made impressive improvements over the last decades regarding cost and performance. For the future, how to further decrease the LCOE of solar electricity ? Several improvements will be described all along the value chain : at the silicon material, the cell and the module level. Regarding the use of solar electricity, some advances at the system level, which aim at increasing the value of solar electricity, will also be presented.
Biography : Philippe Malbranche has been working over more than three decades on renewable energies, mainly solar technologies : first within rural electrification programmes, secondly with public authorities on renewable energy policy, then with a PV module manufacturer, and finally in a research center. Now, he is the Director of INES, l’Institut National de l’Energie Solaire.