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EU funding (€15M): Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market Hor10 Apr 2017 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market
Today’s world PV market is dominated by standard crystalline solar cells (so-called Al-BSF cells) and part of the market is shifting to PERC solar cells. The shift is obtained by introducing three additional process steps to the standard process (rear side cleaning, passivation and laser opening), and allows a gain of typically 1% absolute in efficiency. Next generation c-Si technologies should feature higher voltage solar cells with higher efficiency and less processing steps in the manufacturing, allowing for further cost reduction, both at the PV panel level and for the final cost of solar electricity. AMPERE focuses on technologies with such a potential and capitalizes on the high tech investments made in Europe over the last decade for establishing advanced manufacturing processes for crystalline silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells and modules, on the development of hardware capable of coating at high speed and low cost homogeneous materials of high electronic quality. It also bases on the unique expertise gained in production of thin film modules, and in all hardware issues related to large area coatings in production environment, which can applied for the production of SHJ cells and modules. The final goal of the project is t the setting-up of a 100 MW full-scale automated pilot line in production environment at the 3Sun fab, while preparing the next steps to 300 MW and GW scale. The project will operate with the support of full technology platforms for solar cells at CEA and the platform for advanced module technologies at MBS. It will demonstrate practically the ultra-low cost potential of such manufacturing approaches, as well as the even more impressively low solar electricity generation costs thanks to high efficiency and/or intrinsic bifaciality of the selected technologies.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Agenzia Nazionale Per LE Nuove Tecnologie, L'Energia E LO Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile | €566,388 |
| Commissariat a L Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives | €2,662,274 |
| Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche | €253,063 |
| Csem Centre Suisse D'Electronique ET DE Microtechnique SA - Recherche ET Developpement | €0.00 |
| Ecole Polytechnique Federale DE Lausanne | €0.00 |
| Enel Green Power Italia Srl | €0.00 |
| Enel Green Power S.p.A. | €8,765,433 |
| Environmental Resources Management Ltd. | €440,755 |
| ERM Italia S.p.A. | €0.00 |
| Fraunhofer Gesellschaft ZUR Forderung DER Angewandten Forschung e. V. | €483,288 |
| Jonas & Redmann Automationstechnik GmbH | €630,200 |
| Meyer Burger AG | €0.00 |
| Meyer Burger Research AG | €0.00 |
| Norsun AS | €506,141 |
| Rise Technology Srl | €243,338 |
| Semilab Felvezeto Fizikai Laboratorium Zrt. | €401,188 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/745601
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