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9 October 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pioneers of photovoltaic research in the UK came together to celebrate 50 years of the UK branch of the International Solar Energy Society \u2013 and to pass on the torch to a new generation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
A certain sense of astonishment was in the air at the Royal Institution (RI) in September, where its director Katherine Mathieson welcomed some of the founders of British solar energy research back to where the UK branch of the International Solar Energy Society (UK-ISES) was established 50 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof Bernard McNelis, who became interested in solar power in 1973, brought with him a primitive panel about the size of a forearm. The contrast with the vast ones on display at Solar & Storage Live Birmingham the following week, some with capacities approaching a kilowatt, could not have been plainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOver the past 50 years, things have become much cheaper, more efficient \u2013 and make economic sense,\u201d he said. \u201cI dreamt about doing it in the UK and people used to laugh. Now we see it everywhere,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the event was tinged with sadness. \u201cToday is a celebration and a shutdown of the society as it is,\u201d said the professor, its work being picked up by the Institute of Physics\u2019 Photovoltaics Science, Applications and Technology (PVSAT) Conference and ISES itself – the day\u2019s proceedings being added to the online ISES solar energy museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prof McNelis said that UK-ISES, \u201chas done its job \u2013 and now it\u2019s time for a new generation. I wish PV SAT and solar research in this country well for the next 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nProf Bernard McNelis with an early solar panel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Among the other luminaries at the packed event was Dame Mary Archer, who worked at the RI on photoelectrochemistry as a postdoc \u2013 \u201ca quiet little backwater,\u201d until the 1973 oil crisis, \u201cand then suddenly the world was extremely interested,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After attending UNESCO\u2019s \u2018The Sun in the Service of Mankind\u2019<\/em> summit that year, finding 40 British delegates unknown to each other, she became UK-ISES\u2019 founding hon. secretary in January 1974. Though later drifting away from academia, in her words, Dame Mary maintained a \u201clifelong interest\u201d in solar energy, writing or co-editing a number of works on the subject and chairing the National Energy Foundation from 1988 to 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She said that the event was \u201claying up [UK-ISES] with the civilian equivalent of full military honours,\u201d its huge collection of books and proceedings joining those of such scientific titans as Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday at the RI. She described it as \u201ca bittersweet end\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the end of the 1974, UK-ISES had 400 members, and was running an average of four technical conferences a year in the late 1970s. Its fortunes waned over the 80s, moving from the RI to less expensive locations and running only one conference in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 90s saw something of a renaissance, initially with assistance from the Franklin Company in Birmingham and later moving to the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth and then Oxford Brookes University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, following the untimely death in 2022 of 21-year chair Professor Mick Hutchins (who founded the Solar Energy Materials Research Laboratory at Oxford Brookes and initiated PVSAT), it was decided to formally wrap up UK-ISES at its 50th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor Nicola Pearsall said that, when the body was founded, photovoltaics were \u201cnot really seen as useful in the UK,\u201d apart from having a small potential for exports. Nevertheless, \u201cthe pioneers carried on [and] by the 1980s we were seeing much more applications,\u201d which as the European Academies Science Advisory Council\u2019s Energy Programme Director, Dr Bill Gillett, explained, included the first residential PV system in the UK. A total of 4.6kW of grid-connected capacity was wired up on Milton Keynes homes in 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Given solar energy\u2019s evolution from researchers\u2019 dreams in 1970s to mainstream energy source today, there was a warm welcome for Professor Paul Monks, Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK\u2019s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. He emphasised that solar energy is a key part of the UK Clean Energy Mission 2030, the Solar Taskforce is working with government, industry and regulators to drive growth in the solar sector while mitigating impacts on environment and local communities, and that innovation is still required to drive a circular economy approach to PV.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe final meeting of UK-ISES<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
UK-ISES shared some heritage with Solar Energy UK, which was founded as the Solar Trade Association in 1978. Founded by David Gerassi, it held early meetings alongside UK-ISES, though at that point its focus was on solar thermal technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chief Executive Chris Hewett said he was \u201chonoured\u201d to be among the greats of the solar research community, the progress seen over recent years making \u201cthe work you started incredibly important.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SEUK now represents \u201ca growing and substantial sector in the UK,\u201d and with the forthcoming Future Home Standard, the residential market alone \u201ccould easily get a gigawatt a year,\u201d he added. Moreover, \u201cin the not-too-distant future, there will be 100% renewables on the grid.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGas generation was down 25% last year and this year we are expecting it to shrink by another 25%. Many said that this was impossible \u2013 but it\u2019s happening in California and in Australia as well,\u201d he told the gathering. In California, battery energy storage is now the largest supplier to the grid at certain times. \u201cOnce we have abundant solar energy, batteries get more exciting,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, $3bn was invested in solar production across the world \u2013 more than oil extraction \u2013 and \u201cit\u2019s not rocket science to install,\u201d said Hewett. Furthermore, the government is now actively backing the sector, whereas previously it grew \u201cdespite the government\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But challenges remain \u2013 \u201ca lot of myths\u201d and scare stories are still being bandied around, there is a skills challenge and the cheap power that solar offers is not yet filtering down to consumers. Then there is the perennial problem of grid connectivity, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the prize is great: \u201cA low, stable energy price, forever \u2013 and we will have a shot at preventing dangerous climate change,\u201d Hewett concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gareth Simkins<\/em>, Senior Communications Adviser, Solar Energy UK<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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