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The UPVG and TEAM‐UP: lessons for utility PV success
Author(s) -
Hester S.,
Bensley W.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
progress in photovoltaics: research and applications
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.286
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1099-159X
pISSN - 1062-7995
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-159x(199905/06)7:3<227::aid-pip272>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - commercialization , general partnership , dissemination , business , photovoltaic system , engineering management , marketing , service (business) , electric utility , operations management , engineering , telecommunications , finance , electrical engineering
The Utility PhotoVoltaic Group (UPVG) is a non‐profit organization of nearly 100 energy service providers that was formed to accelerate the commercialization of photovoltaics (PV). The US Department of Energy (DOE) provides funding support for many of the UPVG's activities and programs. The UPVG manages the TEAM‐UP program, which is a partnership between the electric utility industry and the US DOE that provides cost‐sharing to competitively selected business ventures that deploy PV systems. Currently over 400 individual installations, totalling more than 2·5 MW, have been installed under rounds One, Two, and Three of the TEAM‐UP program. One goal of TEAM‐UP is to disseminate information collected from these ventures to utilities, energy service providers, and the solar community. This paper describes the UPVG, the TEAM‐UP program and identifies lessons learned at this stage of the program. Actual performance data from selected PV systems is displayed on the UPVG web page: www.upvg.org. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.