pv-wissen.de

Project period

December 2022 - September 2024 ; since October 2024, the platform has been maintained by us and financed by advertising

Project management

DGS - LV Berlin Brandenburg e.V.

Funding organisations

DBU

Project description

Background

In order to meet the climate protection targets agreed in Paris, it is essential to increase the expansion of photovoltaics (PV) in Germany. According to various studies, the installed PV capacity in Germany must be increased from the current 63 GW to at least 385 GW to 590 GW. With the amended Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG), the German government is aiming to quadruple the PV expansion in Germany from 5.3 GW/a in 2021 to 22 GW/a within five years. The planning and construction of PV systems with an output of 20 GW/a requires around 70,000 full-time jobs. To install 10 GW/a of PV power on roof surfaces, 20,000 to 25,000 tradespeople are required in the PV roof system segment alone.

Solar engineers who plan and install PV systems are already hard to find in some cases. In particular, staff shortages in the areas of planning, assembly, electrical installation and commissioning of PV systems in combination with storage systems, charging infrastructure and heating applications are therefore hampering expansion. Installation companies are overloaded due to the current order situation and there is a shortage of qualified specialists. This is why subcontractors are often used, most of whom do not have sufficient expertise to install technically high-quality PV systems. The continued market ramp-up will further exacerbate the shortage of skilled labour in the PV industry, which is why this is one of the biggest hurdles to rapid PV expansion. In order to counteract this and to recruit sufficiently qualified and well-trained personnel, a broad-based training and further education campaign must be launched in the near future.

What is the project objective?

The overarching aim of the planned PV-Wissen project is to attract more skilled workers to the PV industry through more attractive and effective training programmes. To this end, the new online knowledge portal pv-wissen.de is to be developed to support the training and further education of specialists in the PV industry and make it more interesting. The knowledge portal is intended to make it easier for specialists to access up-to-date information on the planning, assembly, electrical installation and commissioning of PV systems in combination with storage systems, charging infrastructure and heating applications. The operation of more PV systems in Germany should directly increase the achievable environmental benefits and CO2 savings.

The first step in the planned project is to provide electrical specialists who have not yet installed PV systems with the necessary expertise. The initial focus will therefore be on compiling practical and manufacturer-independent expert knowledge. Another focus of the planned project is the target group-specific preparation of basic PV knowledge for newcomers with little or no prior knowledge. The aim is to establish the portal as an industry-leading knowledge platform in the field of PV training and further education. In this way, the project is intended to make it easier and less time-consuming for teachers to update their training materials and to facilitate in-service training for planners and installers.