It was a pleasure to interview Chris Buckland, Global Technical Director at Lightsource BP, ahead of their participation at Solar&Storage Live London, at the ExCel (April 29-30)!
Solar&StorageXtra is the new publishing part of the Solar and Storage Live event series where we will be interviewing our esteemed speakers, exhibitors, sponsors and attendees to get their live reactions to the event and the important discussions within the industry.
Chris joined Solar&StorageXtra to discuss the jurisdictional challenges to implementing renewable technologies globally and the relationship between green hydrogen and solar power.
Chris explained that different solar markets have different challenges when it comes to deploying different renewable technologies. On the technology side, for Lightsource BP, ‘business as usual’ solar is relatively straightforward with Lightsource deploying 5MW of the total 500MW of solar deployed last year. However, each market Lightsource operate in presents a different challenge.
In more mature solar markets (UK, Germany, Spain for example) connection to the grid is relatively easy but in other markets this can be more difficult. In the United States (US) deployment requires a level of government sponsorship with home grown solar being prioritised. In Asia, the landscape is a major challenge with more new technology being needed to reach solar deployment targets. Chris highlighted floating solar as a key technology in the solar market in Asia.
“It’s jurisdictional. On the technology side (regarding) business-as-usual solar is relatively straightforward. Different markets have different challenges… over in new markets, there are new technologies necessary to deploy the amount of solar needed.”
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