Sweden’s annual PV capability additions might develop by round 33% to 750 MW this yr, from 500 MW in 2021, in accordance with a report by Becquerel Sweden. The big-scale photo voltaic market is ready to contribute as much as 150 MW, and the phase is anticipated to develop considerably past 2022.
Sweden might doubtlessly add 750 MW of photo voltaic in 2022, in accordance with knowledge from analysis agency Becquerel Sweden. In 2021, the nation added 499.7 MW of photo voltaic, up by about 25% yr on yr from 2020.
The Worldwide Vitality Company Photovoltaic Energy Techniques Programme‘s (IEA-PVPS)’s Job 1 just lately printed a report on PV purposes in Sweden in 2021. Whereas PV methods for self-consumption dominate Sweden’s photo voltaic market, unsubsidized utility-scale photo voltaic parks are beginning to proliferate. Becquerel estimates between 110 MW to 150 MW of capability will likely be added by the top of this yr.
“When accumulating the info we performed interviews, and the final phrase from the builders is that bigger tasks have been postponed till 2022, primarily on account of provide chain constraints,” stated Amelia Westerberg, a PV market analyst at Becquerel Sweden and the co-author of the report.
This progress has occurred regardless of the removing of photo voltaic from the Swedish-Norwegian renewable electrical energy certificates system on Dec. 31, 2021. The system works by buying and selling electrical energy certificates, each Swedish and Norwegian, on the Nord Pool alternate for a worth agreed between purchasers and sellers. The 2 nations launch these certificates to renewable vitality producers for each megawatt-hour they generate for the primary 15 years of a plant’s lifetime.
Nonetheless, photo voltaic had minimal market share, so the removing of the subsidy didn’t appear to have a big affect on the large-scale phase. Some unsubsidized tasks are already below growth within the nation and their present progress in reputation is extra probably related to typically favorable circumstances for photo voltaic.
Company energy buy agreements and PV cooperative fashions are anticipated to dominate the large-scale photo voltaic market, in accordance with IEA-PVPS.
“This market phase is now completely reliant on uptakers shopping for PV-generated electrical energy above spot market worth, which they’re usually glad to do,” stated Westerberg.
Regardless of the latest progress, in depth allowing processes are nonetheless a barrier to fast progress within the phase, in accordance with Westerberg.
“Whether or not this can be a short-term drawback attributable to inexperience of such processes within the deciding establishments or whether or not it’s a long-term drawback for the business stays to be seen,” the IEA-PVPS staff concluded.
