Project description
Shining a light on solar energy storage
Solar energy, while abundant, is inherently intermittent, making it challenging to harness consistently. This fluctuation requires effective storage solutions to ensure a reliable power supply. Traditional systems involve separate components for energy conversion and storage, leading to increased maintenance and inefficiencies. The ERC-funded STORE-LIGHT project tackles this issue with a groundbreaking approach. STORE-LIGHT integrates solar energy conversion and storage into a single, compact device. This innovative system functions both as a photon energy harvester and a storage unit, eliminating the need for separate devices. By combining these functions, STORE-LIGHT reduces maintenance costs and bulkiness, offering a more efficient and practical solution for solar energy use in everyday applications and advanced technologies.
Objective
The European Green Deal requires novel solutions for renewable energy. Solar energy is not constant and hence an unstable power source owing to its intermittent nature. Therefore, storage of solar energy is an important issue. Our new technology combines solar energy conversion and storage into one, thus delivering the opportunity to exploit the benefits of solar energy conversion also beyond the availability of sunlight. Our compact two-in-one technology avoids the need to connect two separate devices, thus lowering maintenance cost and technological support, connection losses and device bulkiness, together providing a more efficient and easy solution towards the integration in the daily life or to other functional systems.
The proposed technology develops a stand-alone photo-storage system that functions as a photon energy harvester and converter and in the same time as an energy storage compartment. The development of integrated solar-to-charge storage systems are of major importance to exploit the full potential of solar energy, and in the same time extending the limits of conventional energy storage systems. A photo-responsive storage system as planned in STORE-LIGHT, achieving direct and seamless solar energy conversion and storage in one single compact architecture, would be a transformative approach to power off-grid devices. Such unique photo-to-charge storage technology will ultimately affect extended application areas such as self-powered sensors or the next-generation in micro-electronics and IoT.
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet internet of things
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences physical sciences electromagnetism and electronics microelectronics
- natural sciences physical sciences theoretical physics particle physics photons
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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(opens in new window) ERC-2023-POC
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10129 Torino
Italy
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