News - as of 2021
PV Bench: Final Press Conference & Results
The results of the PV-Bench project were presented to the media on November 6 by the various partners involved. They reveal that the figures provided by manufacturers are often quite far from reality.
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Presentation of the long-term performance of the Mont-Soleil power plant at the 22nd Swiss Photovoltaic Congress
22nd Swiss PV Congress
March 21 and 22, 2024
www.pv-mont-soleil.ch is on line
The project to extend the existing Mont-Soleil photovoltaic power plant is presented on the following website: www.pv-mont-soleil.ch
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PhD Summer School Mont-Soleil 2024
SUMMER SCHOOL MONT-SOLEIL 2021
9TH - 14TH AUGUST 2021 ON MONT-SOLEIL
FIELD-BASED INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES
PROGRAM AND APPLICATION
The course will take place at University of Bern, in the Mont-Soleil region and at the Energy Storage Research Centre. The optional post conference program will take participants to Grindelwald and the Jungfraujoch for a visit to the High Altitude Research Lab. We invite 23 excellent PhD and advanced master students from all over Europe to participate.
The summer PhD school will be held on Mont-Soleil above the city of Saint-Imier in the Western part of Switzerland. Production, distribution and application of renewable energies can be shown in a directly perceptible way since all adequate facilities are concentrated on and around Mont-Soleil in a unique manner. Lectures and workshops will take place in the visitor center, with top experts from internationally renowned universities as well as from industries in the field of renewable energies. Hotel accommodation will be organized in a unique mountain hotel on Mont-Soleil.
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Open days Mont-Soleil 2024
Swiss Energypark 2023: new production records and challenges to be resolved (04.03.2024)
Production of 140 GWh of electricity from renewable sources by 2023
Article only available in French and German
Mont-Soleil – extension photovoltaïque en cohabitation (26.02.2024)
Article only available in French
Le Mont-Soleil, avec ses centrales solaires et éoliennes existantes depuis 1992, pourrait accueillir une grande installation photovoltaïque (PV). D'ici fin 2025, elle devrait produire une importante part d’électricité "hivernale" comme l’exige en urgence la Confédération.
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PhD SUMMER SCHOOL MONT-SOLEIL 2023 - revue de presse
7TH - 12TH AUGUST 2023 ON MONT-SOLEIL
FIELD-BASED INSIGHTS INTO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Revue de presse
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PV-Bench 23-24 Mont-Soleil': it's on! (23.02.2022)
In view of the solar offensive launched by the Federal Parliament, scientific quality analyses began today in Mont-Soleil in the Bernese Jura. The aim of the pilot project 'PV-Bench 23-24 Mont-Soleil' is to contribute to an optimal and sustainable use of solar energy by saving as much suitable surface area as possible. To this end, market-relevant solar cells will be tested in the new open-air laboratory at an altitude of 1'200 meters in a producer-neutral manner and the results will be made available to the interested public. The pilot project is carried out in close cooperation between the Mont-Soleil Society (SMS), the regional association Espace découverte Energie (EdE) and the Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH), in contact with the Ticino University of Applied Sciences SUPSI, the French-speaking University of Applied Sciences HE-Arc as well as the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Neuchâtel and Lausanne.
Pilote Benchmark 23-24 Mont-Soleil (01.12.2022)
Text only available in French and German (22.12.2022)
Long-term correlation of operational data with weather patterns (27.09.2021)
ARTICLE IN «BULLETIN SEV/VSE»
Photovoltaics (PV) is becoming a mainstay of power supply. It is therefore worthwhile to investigate the weather influences on PV yield in order to refine business plans or optimize interconnection with other energy sources. Long-term operating data from the Mont-Soleil solar power plant were correlated with meteorological data for this purpose.
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