- Job Title
- Senior Scientist
- Company
- Fraunhofer Center for Silicon-Photovoltaics CSP
- Country
- Germany
Ulrike Jahn is a graduate physicist and works as a scientific group leader in the Photovoltaic Systems and Integration department at the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP in Halle, Germany. Her work focusses on the diagnosis and reliability of PV systems. She is project manager of an international expert group, Task 13 of the PVPS programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA), which deals with technical and economic aspects of the reliability and performance of PV systems. She has been coordinating this network of currently 185 international experts in 25 countries since 2010.
May 07, 2025Utility-Scale Solar Power III: Impacts of Extreme Weather on PV Power Plants (co-organized with IEA Task 13)
09:00 am - 10:30 am
Utility-Scale Solar Power III: Impacts of Extreme Weather on PV Power Plants
The increase in frequency and intensity of severe weather events associated with global climate change poses a growing risk to PV systems worldwide. These local and global risks range from outright destruction of power plants to long-term performance losses due to accelerated component and system degradation. Without concerted and event-specific resilience strategies, severe weather increasingly threatens the robustness and availability of PV generation worldwide.
This session will:
- Raise awareness of climate change and its implications for a solar-intensive energy economy
- Present a range of extreme-weather events that can impact PV power plants and identify/quantify the risks
- Share strategies for designing and siting storm-resilient PV systems
- Provide information on failure mechanisms and their root causes