Hybrid PV Power Plants - Strategies of Companies Procuring 100% Renewable Energy at the Time of Use

Mission: Electrify everything (that can be electrified) with clean and renewable energy. Bruce Douglas has 25 years' international experience in the promotion of renewable energy and electrification. He is currently Director of Communications and Business at Eurelectric based in Brussels, representing over 3000 companies active in the European power sector. Previously he has held the following positions: Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe, Coordinator of the RE-Source Platform - the European alliance for corporate sourcing of renewable energy, founding Chairman of the Global Solar Council (GSC), Chief Operating Officer at WindEurope for 10 years, founding Secretary General of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Managing Director of FLiDAR, an offshore wind company. He has a Master degree in renewable energy systems technology and is fluent in English and French.

Wilfried van Sark is full professor 'Integration of Photovoltaics' at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He is a experimental physicist by training (MSc/PhD), and has 40 year experience in the field of photovoltaics. He worked on various material systems such as crystalline and thin film silicon and III-V solar cells, both experimentally and theoretically. His current activities focus on employing spectrum conversion to increase solar cell conversion efficiency for next-generation photovoltaic energy converters such as luminescent solar concentrators as well as performance analysis of building-integrated and standard PV systems in the field. This in particular links to the integration of PV systems in smart grids in the built environment, in which Electrical Vehicles, demand response and self-consumption and self-sufficiency play a major role. He is the author of some 250 publications, cited more than 12,000 times, and various (text)books on Photovoltaics. He is associate editor of Solar Energy and Frontiers in Energy Research, and member of the editorial boards of Renewable Energy, Energies, and Materials. He is member of the International Solar Energy Society and senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and is member of scientific committees of various EU and IEEE PV conferences. He presently is national representative in the International Energy Agency (IEA) PVPS Task 13 (PV Performance, Operation and Reliability of Photovoltaic Systems) and Task 16 (Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large Scale Applications).

Devon Swezey is Senior Lead for Global Energy Markets and Policy at Google, where he supports Google's efforts to operate on 24/7 Carbon-free energy across the globe. He was lead author of Google's recently published Policy Roadmap for 24/7 Carbon-free Energy. Prior to joining Google, Devon developed utility scale solar PV projects at First Solar. Devon began his career at the Breakthrough Institute, a climate and energy policy think tank, where he led research on economic and energy policy topics. Devon earned his masters degree in international economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a bachelor's degree in international relations from Stanford University.

Diego is a partner who works with energy solutions, a specialized McKinsey unit focused on harnessing digital and advanced analytics to enable the Energy Transition where he leads development of solutions as well as their delivery to clients. Diego also leads McKinsey's work on green power and heat procurement across EMEA and Asia supporting clients across Steel, Mining, Agriculture, Technology and Telecom in setting strategy, defining the technical and quantitative implementation and supporting on the value capture. He co-leads McKinsey's work in Green Energy Transformation supporting energy consumers in their decarbonization journey. Diego has worked extensively with energy consumers, utilities and OEMs on challenges in operations, maintenance, and strategy across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Examples of his recent client projects include the following: - Led the study and analysis of digital use cases enabling flexibility in the grid as required by the European RES targets and plans culminating in the publication of a co-authored report - Developed an advanced analytics model to understand the pathway for industrial off takers to optimize their green energy procurement considering a vast array of potential instrument including RES, storage, PPAs, GO's to better define the LCOE and cost of decarbonization - Drove the analysis of the Swiss Power Market to support clients in better understand potential stress point in the Swiss National Energy Strategy - Led the total value and digital assessment for a leading Utility across production, and identifying 20-40 M EUR in total opportunity across CAPEX / OPEX and establishing a broad go-forward strategy aligned with the internal transformation and broader market trends helping a utility to develop and implement a customized technology solution for managing asset performance across a portfolio of more than 30 solar construction projects Before joining McKinsey, Diego spent four years with an international banking group as an equity research associate. He speaks five languages.

Killian runs EnergyTag's, a non-profit focused on enabling the real-time electricity tracking that will transform clean energy sourcing and redefine what it means for companies to be 100% renewable. Alongside the world's top experts, Killian led the process of drafting the EnergyTag Standard, which created the Granular Certificate, a robust and widely recognised instrument for hourly energy attribute tracking. The Standard is supported by hundreds of organisations including some of the world's leading sustainability players like UN Energy Google, Microsoft, Iberdrola, AES and Clean Air Task Force. Killian also Chairs the Linux Foundation's Carbon Data Specification, which aims at ensuring raw energy data is standard and available. Prior to joining EnergyTag, Killian managed global energy strategy at Air Liquide, one of the world's largest hydrogen producers. Killian holds a Masters degree in Energy Technologies from the University of Cambridge.