Project description
Towards European perovskite solar cell production
Renewable energy offers clean alternatives to fossil fuels in the EU, and perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show promise due to their low cost and power conversion efficiency of 25.7 %. However, scaling their performance remains a challenge. In this context, the EU-funded PERSEUS project will develop and demonstrate three large-area PSC architectures suitable for industries such as floating photovoltaics, building-integrated photovoltaics, agriphotovoltaics and urban photovoltaics. The project will create solutions, including single-junction opaque modules, semi-transparent modules and 4-terminal (4T) perovskite plus CIGS tandem modules. They will meet the diverse needs of end-users in terms of performance, lifetime and cost and will convert these solutions into comprehensive blueprints for multi-stage manufacturing lines.
Objective
Renewable energies provide clean, inexhaustible, and increasingly competitive energy source differing from fossil fuels in diversity, abundance, and potential for use. Solar energy capacity in European Union has been increasing in recent years with Germany, Spain and Poland leading the way in new installations. In 2022, the European Union added a record-breaking 41.4GW of solar power, increasing the total solar power capacity by 25%.
Within the solar energy market, perovskite-based solar cells (PSCs) will contribute significantly towards the overall mix of solar energy due to PSCs differentiators compare to other solar Photovoltaic technologies of: (i) low-cost, (ii) excellent power-to-weight performance and (iii) high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.7% at lab-scale in 2022, up from 3.8% in 2009. A key challenge of PSC technology is replication at large-scale as there is a substantial difference in performance from small-area cell (lab-scale) and large-area module performance.
PERSEUS is designed to establish a foundation for PSC production and application development within Europe. The project will develop and demonstrate 3 different large area PSC architectures that offer broad adoption potential across multiple industries such as Floating Photovoltaics, Building Integrated and Applied Photovoltaics, Agri-Photovoltaics and Urban Photovoltaics. As each end-user requires different properties (e.g. performance, lifetime and cost targets), PERSEUS will develop parallel solutions to meet end-user needs covering: (1) single-junction opaque modules (2) semi-transparent modules and (3) 4T Perovskite + CIGS tandem module architectures. These will be translated into ‘blueprints’, of multi-stage manufacturing line(s) which have validated, matched outputs and allow immediate post-project progress to the commercialization phase.
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- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels renewable energy solar energy photovoltaic
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL5-2023-D3-02
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02150 Espoo
Finland
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