During the first year of the two-year project, we have performed the following works:
- Work Package (WP) 1 - Production: Established a production facility for manufacturing the core of our technology, the hybrid receiver. In that facility we produced the required receivers for our 13 demo machines for which the components have been manufactured by third parties.
- WP 2 Demo SunOysters and Certification: Installed so far 5 demo machines in Northern Germany, Brussels, Cologne and two in Northern China. Started monitoring their reliability and performance.
Out of These, the machine in Cologne is for certification purposes. Here, TÜV Rheinland is working as a subcontractor on the certification of the SunOyster according to IEC 62108, ISO 9806 and other Standards.
- WP 3 Demo Projects: Installed the first demo Project SOcool Office, consisting of a SunOyster, a heat storage, an adsorption chiller with heat rejection unit, a cold storage and a fan coil for cold Distribution. Started monitoring the Performance - works well.
-WP 4 Supply Chain: Identified cheaper components: E.g. steel parts, glass tubes, mirrors, direct copper bondings for the cell assemblies.
- WP 5 Commercialisation: We have set up a successful distribution in Morocco and Chinaion co-operations. Negotiations of co-operations in particular in Portugal, India, and US. Successful PR works with several positive newspaper articles e.g. in a leading German business magazine "brand eins".
- WP 6 includes the Project Management. In this field we received the first patent for our hybrid Receiver (in China), a utility model for the SunOyster Crystal (in Germany and China), a European patent for our tracker which led to national patents in Spain, France, Germany and Italy and finally a European patent for an innovative mirror structure. The project financials are altogether in line with our planning.
