Photovoltaics performance monitoring is essential in a 100% renewables-based society

Wilfried van Sark is full professor of "Integration of Photovoltaics"at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He is an experimental physicist by training (MSc/PhD) and has over 35 years experience in the field of PVs. He worked on various ma-terial systems such as crystalline and thin-film silicon and III-V solar cells, both experimentally and theoretically. His current activ-ities focus on employing spec-trum conversion to increase solar cell conversion efficiency for next-generation PV energy con-verters, and performance anal-ysis of building-integrated and standard PV systems. This in particular links to integration of PV systems in smart grids in the built environment.