Plenary Lecture
The Specifics of the Operation of Photovoltaic Systems in the Czech Republic
Associate Professor Petr Mastny
Centre of Research and Utilization of Renewable Energy Sources
Brno University of Technology
Czech Republic
E-mail: mastny@feec.vutbr.cz
Abstract: Photovoltaic systems are within the Czech Republic currently quite topical. It can be said that the Czech Republic has lately become the country with fastest growing installed capacity of photovoltaic systems in Central Europe. The turning point came in early 2011, when there came into existence new legislative conditions for the installation of photovoltaic (PV) systems. Therefore the installations of new PV systems to be connected to the electricity system were stopped. The reason for this change has become the problems associated with managing the power supply of electricity produced by these sources to electricity network. To the forefront there came the issue of operating characteristics of PV systems related with the operation economy under the current legislative conditions in the Czech Republic. Lecture is focused primarily on the issue of operation of photovoltaic systems and methods for immediate detection of defects on photovoltaic panels using infrared camera. Part of the lecture is the economic analysis of the operation of photovoltaic systems in the current legislative conditions in the Czech Republic based on taking into account the influence of defects photovoltaic panels on the economy of operation.
Brief Biography of the Speaker:Petr Mastny was born in 1976. He graduated in Electrical Power engineering in 2000 from Brno University of Technology. His Ph.D. he obtained in October 2006. In December 2010 he has been appointed as Associate Professor at Brno University of Technology. He has been with Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic since 2005 and with Centre of Research and Utilization of Renewable Energy since 2010. His current position is assistant professor. His field of interest covers the problems of utilization of renewable energy source and questions of energy management systems with renewable energy sources and their influence on environment. At present he is head worker or co-worker of five research projects in the field of Alternative Power Sources and he cooperates with several private companies to solve of real applications. Petr Mastny has been member of WSEAS (The World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society) since 2007, member of NAUN since 2009, member of IEEAM since 2010 and member of CIRED since 2009. He is author of about 70 publications in international scientific journals and conferences in field of Power Engineering and Alternative Power Sources. He has more than 50 presentations in international conferences and technical seminars and he has more than 10 citations in international scientific journals.