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Project No. |
EWG 16 2013A
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Project Title |
APEC Photovoltaic Communication and Cooperation Platform (PVCCP)
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Project Status |
Completed Project
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Publication (if any) |
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Fund Account |
APEC Support Fund
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Sub-fund |
ASF: Energy Efficiency
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Project Year |
2013
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Project Session |
Session 2
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APEC Funding |
90,000
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Co-funding Amount |
30,000
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Total Project Value |
120,000
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Sponsoring Forum |
Energy Working Group (EWG)
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Topics |
Energy
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Committee |
SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE)
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Other Fora Involved |
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Other Non-APEC Stakeholders Involved |
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Proposing Economy(ies) |
China
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Co-Sponsoring Economies |
Hong Kong, China; Indonesia; Korea; Malaysia; Singapore; Chinese Taipei; Thailand; United States; Viet Nam
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Expected Start Date |
01/09/2013
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Expected Completion Date |
31/10/2014
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Project Proponent Name 1 |
Li Hu
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Job Title 1 |
General Manager
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Organization 1 |
China Clean Energy Network
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Postal Address 1 |
807 Building B, De Sheng Men Wai Da Jie 36, Beijing, China 100120
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Telephone 1 |
86-1369 3541209
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Fax 1 |
Not Applicable
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Email 1 |
pvccp@21ce.cc
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Project Proponent Name 2 |
Not Applicable
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Job Title 2 |
Not Applicable
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Organization 2 |
Not Applicable
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Postal Address 2 |
Not Applicable
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Telephone 2 |
Not Applicable
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Fax 2 |
Not Applicable
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Email 2 |
Not Applicable
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Declaration |
Li Hu
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Project Summary |
The Photovoltaic Communication and Cooperation Platform (PVCCP) project is to meet the mission for the increase of renewable energy usage, which was addressed by 10th APEC Ministerial Meeting in Russia in 2012. The PVCCP project’s goals including:
1) establish a PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme, to identify and control potential risks of different periods including planning, design, manufacturing, construction, maintenance, etc,
2) develop PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits to carry out risk analysis, mainly focus on three stages: design, construction and maintenance ,
3) provide support to EGNRET and related stakeholders who wish to evaluate the risk and quality of specific PV project,
4) provide content and tool support concerning PV to the Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP) of Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI).
A workshop will be organized in China in 2014. |
Relevance |
Most of the APEC member economies have rich solar resource. In recent years, PV technology has shown its great potential capacity to meet Challenges and Strategic Choices, and increase renewable energy use, which was addressed by 10th APEC Ministerial Meeting in Russia in 2012.
APEC has become world biggest PV manufacturing center, and contributes a lot to the quality management in product level. APEC could become world biggest implementation area and market as well, because of strong energy demand and PV rapid price drop.
However, PV system technology and solution is still relatively immature compared to other energy, especially considering the different environmental, grid, and technology factors among APEC member economies, it is very important and valuable to develop a basic scheme to evaluate and control PV system Life-cycling risk, and tool kits to carry out the analysis and evaluation.
The current PV risk management schemes are mostly developed by individual project developer, certification and testing institution, like UL, JET, Intertek, VDE, TUV, etc inside and outside of APEC region, according to different standards. The PVCCP project is to establish a harmonized risk management scheme which can used as reference of different stakeholders in different area.
Considering the initiate construction cost of PV power plant drops rapidly in recent years, as well as the large scale of installation, the risk of PV product and PV System is more popular and higher than before. Thus the professional PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits are badly needed to improve safety, quality and efficiency. At the same time, since there are more PV power plant experimental projects and their performance data are available today, it is possible and much easier to develop those PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits.
We learnt important lessons from nuclear power industry: one casualty happened in Japan could damage the whole industry all over the world, wherever has the tsunami risk or not. Thus we badly need an efficient platform to help all related stakeholders to share latest knowledge and lessons at this historic stage. This PV platform could also provide experience to other fields like wind, biomass, etc in future.
Through PVCCP project, APEC might help its member economy learn from each other and reduce huge potential technical and economic risks in large scale PV application. |
Objectives |
1) To establish a PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme, to identify and control potential risks of different period including planning, design, manufacturing, construction, maintenance, etc.
2) To develop and recommend Tool Kits to carry out risk analysis, mainly focus on three stages: design, construction and maintenance.
3) The PVCCP project will upload the APEC region professional PV risk management scheme and tool kits to APEC EGNRET website (http://www.egnret.ewg.apec.org/) for free, which can be used through internet based platform. Thus the EWG, EGNRET representatives and other related stakeholders can easily evaluate the risk and quality of a specific PV project.
4) The project overseer will be responsible to establish and provide a specific website based platform for promotion and application of the PV risk management scheme and tool kits. This platform can facilitate communications among APEC secretariat, working group, policy makers, project developers, manufacturers, bankers and insurers, etc in the PV sector, and to accumulate different stakeholders’ evaluation outcomes and to provide content and tool support concerning PV to the Knowledge Sharing Platform of Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI-KSP). |
Alignment |
With the booming development of global new energy industry and low carbon economy, APEC Secretariat and its member economies have shared successful experience and knowledge through meetings, activities, websites, etc.
The Energy Smart Communities Initiative (ESCI) was launched in November 2010 by the U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan with APEC. One of the components of ESCI is the Knowledge Sharing Platform (KSP).
Considering fast development and huge potential of PV industry and PV market in APEC area, to build up harmonized Risk Management Scheme and Tool Kits, as bases and core component as PV Communication and Cooperation Platform, will not only provide content and tool support to ESCI-KSP and EWG / EGNRET, but also can help all the APEC EWG representatives, EGNRET representatives, APEC member economies and PV industry to improve PV System Life-cycling Risk Management capacity.
Thus APEC could bring into play its advantages in high-end coordination, and promoted different economies to enforce compatible and consistent risk management scheme, evaluation systems, standards, tools, and database for PV industry. |
TILF/ASF Justification |
Most of APEC member economies are feasible to develop PV as one of important clean energy resources. Considering typical PV projects’ life cycling could as long as 20 to 25 years, it is very valuable and critical to carry out reasonable evaluation to the project in advance, and provide professional construction and maintenance services afterward.
Especially in some developing economies, lots of PV projects are built in rural area or places that are difficult to get reparation once there is any problem. The whole PV system could be abandoned for years or even forever because of a minor problem due to this reason.
The PVCCP project will develop a set of PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits, to support capacity building of PV design, construction, maintenance, etc. in APEC developing economies. This project will also provide experimental projects information, to help experts and related stakeholders from APEC developing economies to understand how to use and benefit from those outputs.
The PVCCP project outputs will also be introduced in an international workshop. Project developer, researcher, grid company, government officials from APEC developing economies will be invited to attend the workshop and discuss together with project team. The PVCCP project also allocates a proportion of budget to help APEC developing economies representatives attend the workshop in China. |
Beneficiaries and Outputs |
The outputs of PVCCP project are as follow:
- PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme. This scheme will be jointly developed together with international PV professional testing and certification body, upon their experiences and research of PV module, inverter and system.
- PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits, which consists of three parts:
1) PV system design tool kits, including PV power plant installation size and array arrangement analysis tool, PV module tilt angle calculator, PV array distance calculator, PV cable loss calculator, Mounting system evaluation tool, Evaluation tool of PV module connection, etc
2) PV system construction tool kits
3) PV system maintenance tool kits, including maintenance scheme planning, cost evaluation tool, PV system fault diagnosis tool
- Experimental project study. The PVCCP project will select proper projects which will use PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits to provide experimental information for reference.
- APEC PV development and cooperation Workshop. The PVCCP project team will introduce key information of how to use PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits, together with Guidebook for PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits, as well as experimental project report.
Beneficiaries:
Through a set of more harmonized risk management scheme, the whole PV industry chain could use more consistent and standardized analysis tool, KPI, documents and data format, discuss and exchange ideas on the PV project cooperation. The policy makers of various economies could carry out basic evaluation and analysis of safety and performance of PV project. The general public could also be engaged, better understand the PV technology and industry, and assist the widespread promotion of PV. The other beneficiaries could include scholars and standard organizations, who might be able to use the PVCCP outputs to improve risk analysis to latest PV product and project development.
Appropriate key manufactures of PV systems in the APEC region would be also invited for participation in the PVCCP project.
There are quite a lot of international PV standards and national standards concerning PV system design, construction and maintenance. However, the normal practices of how to analysis the possible risk of these jobs in advance, or how to evaluate a specific PV project’s design, construction and maintenance, are mostly carried out according to companies’ internal standard and specification, or even by project manager’s personal experiences.
The PVCCP project is to develop and provide harmonized and professional scheme and tool kits to help to improve these normal practices:
- With the PV system design tool kits, the design institution could improve the quality and efficiency of PV system design, the project owner could harmonise the different institution’s design of different project into a standardized format and solution.
- With the PV system construction tool kits, the EPC (Engineer, Procure, Construct) company and project owner can facilitate quality management of large scale of PV projects at different locations efficiently, with fewer human resources and cost, in a short time window.
- With the PV system maintenance tool kits, the project owner could carry out risk based maintenance scheme in advance, to save maintenance cost and ensure reliable yield performance of PV system. |
Dissemination |
A final PVCCP project report including Introduction to PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme, Guidebook for PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits and experimental project report will be delivered to APEC EGNRET and APEC EWG before the end of October 2014.
The electronic version of final report will be published at APEC EGNRET website and other APEC platform. This report will also be sent to related PV research institution, design firm, developer and professional information platform. The PVCCP project final report will be printed 300 copies.
Training, especially train the trainers will be one important manner to communicate and promote the project’s outputs and results, particularly to external parties. The EWG and EGNRET representatives, as well as the PV investor, power company, EPC company, design firm, who have basic technical acknowledge and IT skills (like Excel software), are most welcome to participate the training.
The project overseer will try to host the training together with PVCCP workshop and EGNRET 43rd meeting in Beijing around September 2014. Except APEC EWG and EGNRET representatives, those APEC member economies’ institution and companies are welcome to attend the training and workshop as well. The participants can share the latest technology, standard, commercial experiences together.
The Guidebook of PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits and final report could be used as training materials, which will be sent through internet to APEC member economies and external stakeholders. Besides the workshop, trainings will also be provided through web-based seminar and meetings. The project overseer will discuss with international certification and testing body, to see if specific PV Risk Management Certification system could be employed to ensure the results in the long term together with these professional partners.
The target audience: The target audience of PVCCP project is the whole PV industry chain, including project developer, design institution, power company, grid company, EPC company, banker, insurance company, testing and certification body, research institution, government officials, etc.
There is no intention to sell outputs arising from this project. |
Gender |
The PVCCP project will invite experienced woman experts to participate the development of PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits. During the preparation process of final report and workshop, the PVCCP project will also invite women professionals to help organize activities, prepare report, communication with media and related stakeholders, and expand the dissemination of final outputs. |
Work Plan |
1) September 2013 to December 2013: Scheme Development
Task 1: Establishing working group.
According to the main stages of whole life cycling of PV project, the PVCCP team will be divided into three groups. This is also learn from the real PV industry, which has different professional institutions, experts (including possible experts from international organizations that have risk management experiences), services in different sector.
Group (1): Design and early stage evaluation group. The core members will come from PV power plant design institution and planning experts.
Group (2): Construction and on site management group. The core members will come from EPC companies, power companies, developers, etc.
Group (3): Maintenance and performance improvement group. The core members will come from power companies, grid company, testing and certification body, maintenance service provider, etc.
Each group will be responsible to the scheme and tool kits development of a specific stage. The project overseer will harmonize their jobs and make sure the outputs from these three groups will be a systematized solution.
Working group will be organized based on the main stages of whole life cycling of PVCCP project. The project overseer and working group leader will invite different members with different expertise, and from different member economies.
The members of the working groups will be selected according to following steps:
(1) Recommendations of potential working group candidates. The project overseer will contact with co-sponsor and other APEC member economies’ representatives, to ask their help of providing potential working group candidates.
(2) The project overseer will organize an expert team to evaluate candidates’ materials.
(3) The expert team and project overseer will discuss and choose the members of the working groups according to the requirement of project full proposal.
Task 2: Kick-off meeting of PVCCP projects, which will invite all project members and potential partners, to discuss the detailed working plan, allocation of tasks, potential partners and experimental projects, etc.
The PVCCP project overseer will also consider if the evaluation of economic benefit should be included in this project or not during the meeting.
Task 3: Discussion and development of draft PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme. The three working group will find different experts and institutions, from APEC member economies and EU countries, to jointly develop the draft of PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme. The PVCCP project team will try to collect more background and examples of PV product and system failures or damages information, to support development and verification of management scheme and tool kits.
Task 4: A small size seminar to discuss PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme.
Outputs:
(1) Contracts with different group leaders
(2) Kick-off meeting minutes
(3) PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme
2) January 2014 to March 2014, Tool Kits Development
Task 1: Internal meeting to discuss general structure and framework of PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits
Task 2: Each group will develop tool kits according to job allocation and internal meeting minutes
Task 3: Review of group output and harmonization of each tool as a tool kits package
Task 4: Preparation of Guidebook of PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits
Outputs:
(1) PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits
(2) Guidebook of PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits
3) April 2014 to July 2014, Experimental projects Study
Task 1: Choose experimental projects and sign the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with project owner. The PVCCP project team will also contact APEC member economies representatives to collect proper PV projects information, for experimental projects study.
Task 2: Simulation of whole life cycling risk management with PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits together with project owner and related stakeholders
Task 3: Summary of users’ feedback and improvement comments to PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits
Outputs:
(1) Experimental projects Study Report
(2) feedback and improvement comments
4) August 2014 to October 2014, Final Report and Workshop
Task 1: Each group improve the scheme and tool kits according to feedback and improvement comments
Task 2: Preparation of final report including Introduction to PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme, Guidebook for PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits and experimental projects report. Case studies will be carried out and included all the results in the final report for reader to understand the value of this project. Those outputs can also be used as training materials of related tool kits.
Task 3: APEC PV development and cooperation Workshop. Representatives from APEC member economies will be invited to attend the workshop and have technical exchange concerning PV project development.
Outputs:
(1) PVCCP project final Report
(2) APEC PV development and cooperation Workshop |
Risks |
To deal with risk of coordination with different regulations in APEC region, the project overseer will keep close attention to different regulations developed by APEC member government. The basis of PVCCP project is international standard and regulations, especially those developed by IEC TC 82 and UL, which are widely used by APEC member economies regarding PV power generation safety and efficiency.
To make sure PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits be efficient and precise, the PVCCP project team needs to collect large amount of real PV project’s detailed information for evaluation and adjustment. The project overseer will focus on this issue and discuss with potential partners at the beginning, and put heavy attention on the latest progress of PV industry, which is developing fast in recent years.
The PV projects’ performance and risk could be different due to the different PV module, PV inverter, and environmental factors. The PVCCP team will put attention on those issues during the scheme and tool kits development process. |
Monitoring and Evaluation |
The first indicator is detailed project working plan prepared by the kick-off meeting. The whole process of PVCCP project research will be carried out according to this detailed plan.
The second indicator is regular project team meeting that all group leaders will attend and report to overseer the latest progress, problems and questions.
The third indicator is the outputs of PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits’ experimental application, to see if the results are reasonable and acceptable to the project owner and experts from the industry. PVCCP project team will have face to face discussion concerning these results together with them.
The forth indicator is the workshop discussion and evaluation to the PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits.
A specific questionnaire and survey concerning the outputs evaluation will be prepared and carried out during the workshop. This survey will help to collect information of the PVCCP project outputs for final improvement and further development in future. |
Linkages |
The PVCCP project will provide professional tools to APEC EGNRET and APEC EWG members to analysis PV projects. It will also provide tool support and experimental project study information to the ESCI-KSP.
Representatives from PVCCP project will discuss the outputs in IEC TC 82, which is specially focus on PV, as well as PV Quality Assurance (QA) Task Force and IEA PVPS members.
The PVCCP project is built upon Conference on Solar Technology Standards & Conformance (San Francisco, USA, September 2011, which had detailed discussion on solar technology standards & conformance), APEC Workshop on Ensuring Photovoltaic (PV) Reliability and Durability (Chinese Taipei, October 2011, which focused on PV market and policy developed in Asia, and discussed possible mechanism in APEC region to promote the PV application and technology development and cooperation).
This project will make the most of previous outcome including the information, suggestion and experts networks, to develop and recommend new systemic scheme and tool kits on the basis of latest development.
The PVCCP project will organize professional experts to develop technical scheme and tool kits, as well as specific experimental study, instead of sharing information and knowledge through a few days’ presentation and discussion.
The PVCCP project will provide professional PV software support to the APEC Photovoltaic Application Roadmap and Model Study (PVARM). Together these two projects can help related stakeholders to carry out feasibility study at the very beginning, till due diligence investigation to a well completed project.
APEC has become world’s largest PV manufacturing center, and could become world’s largest PV installation market in near future. The PVCCP project will contribute APEC member economies learn from each other and sharing the latest experiences and lessons, to strengthen the PV cluster among APEC region. This will bring much cleaner energy structure, less emission and more job opportunities to the whole APEC area. |
Sustainability |
The PV industry is at very critical stage of reaching grid parity in lots of APEC member economies. Outputs from PVCCP project, including PV System Life-cycling Risk Management Scheme and PV Risk Analysis Tool Kits, will be introduced to project developer, as well as international testing and certification body. The feedback and data from experimental projects will be collected on the project overseer’s own website and other partners’ existing website and database, which already has wide influence and professional readers. Thus could help related stakeholders keep renewing latest information, results and lessons.
The possible next steps to build on PVCCP project outputs are:
1) PV system credibility evaluation model. As different stakeholders including developer, EPC, banker, insurance company could use a harmonized scheme to evaluate a specific PV project, this could help to build up a much popular credibility evaluation model among different areas. At the same time, these stakeholders can also save their precious time and cost by using similar scheme and tool kits.
2) PV power plant price-setting model. As PVCCP project can help potential buyer or seller understand precisely life-cycling risk, it will make the PV power plant more reasonable and transparent.
3) New PV investment model and business model. The PVCCP project can not only help to clarify single project’s risk and quality, but also can help trading and securitization of PV assets. This might contribute to the innovation of new PV investment and business model.
The PVCCP project overseer will also collect feedback of the project results from different resources, including from ESCI-KSP in the future. After release of the tool kits for the PV life cycle risk management scheme from PVCCP project, the periodical review will be considered in order to catch up the technology progress. The PO will also consider follow-up effort to focus on the training course arrangement in APEC region, since this could attract more professional to use the tool kits developed by PVCCP project. The PO would present the outputs at an EGNRET meeting, he will also consider a follow-up evaluation, to measure the practices along the PVCCP project outputs developed. |
Project Overseers |
Mr. LI Hu, general manager of China Clean Energy Network (CCEN), working as a researcher in solar PV sector for long time，he has special opinion and understanding for the solar PV policy , commercial model ,technology standard, PV system life-cycling risk management and risk control. In 2010，as business development expert he joined PFAN China- ECO-Asia Clean Development and Climate Program，improved the ability of financing for those clean energy enterprises and successfully help them find cooperation investors. Besides, as the chief editor of China New technology New Production New Energy magazine authorized by Ministry of Science and Technology, he has ever published many influential analysis reports. |
Cost Efficiency |
The PVCCP project will make the most of existing experimental projects and equipment to collect necessary data and feedback, to avoiding buying new supervision equipment. Its final report and outputs will be largely delivered to PV industry and related stakeholder via internet, which can save lots of money. Skype and telephone meeting will be encouraged during the process to saving travelling cost. Project team will select at least three possible meeting venues and select the most cost-efficient one |
Drawdown Timetable |
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Direct Labour |
There are three group leaders who will spend 10 weeks (40 working hours per week×10 weeks = 400 hours per group leader) on PVCCP project.
Group (1): Design and early stage evaluation group. The Group (1) leader will be an expert of PV power plant design with abundant experiences and professional skills to related software and standards.
Group (2): Construction and on site management group. The Group (2) leader will be good PV project manager with practical experiences, professional understanding and skills of construction and acceptance check.
Group (3): Maintenance and performance improvement group. The Group (3) leader should be familiar to the key points and task of PV power plant maintenance and evaluation.
All the contractors will not be staff from my own organization or government employees. |
Waivers |
Participants from government officials, international institutions and non APEC member economies might be invited to the workshop as speakers. Hence waiver might be requested to them as air ticket and per diem as the case may be. |
Are there any supporting document attached? |
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