Descripción del proyecto
Una tecnología innovadora de paneles solares ampliará considerablemente las aplicaciones más allá de los tejados de edificios
Atrás quedan los días de la «Casa de la pradera», en que se leía a la luz de las velas y la gente se calentaba con calefacción de leña. La población mundial sigue creciendo y el desarrollo urbano implica una enorme necesidad de consumo de energía. Al mismo tiempo, el cambio climático exige una alternativa a los combustibles fósiles. La energía fotovoltaica que utiliza la energía sostenible y limpia del Sol para producir electricidad ha florecido. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las instalaciones de las zonas urbanas están localizadas en los tejados, mientras que la superficie restante de los edificios permanece sin explotar. Así, es necesario dar con innovaciones que permitan mayores renovaciones para lograr edificios de consumo de energía casi nulo (EECN). El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos PIPER ofrece una tecnología de paneles solares semitransparentes y económicos para permitir un cambio cualitativo en la aplicación de la tecnología fotovoltaica.
Objetivo
The impact of buildings to European final energy consumption has been assessed at 40%, making the building stock responsible for 36% of CO2 emissions. The reduction of energy consumption in buildings is the focus of the European 2020 strategy. EU’s essential policy instruments that encourage energy efficiency, retrofit measures and renewable production are: the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD and EPBD recast) and the Renewable Energy Directive (RED). One of the major initiatives promoted by the EPBD recast is the implementation of nearly zero energy buildings (NZEBs) as the building objective from 2018 onwards. In the US, as well, several states’ strategic plans stipulate that all new residential buildings must be zero-net-energy (ZNE) by 2020, all new commercial buildings - by 2030, and 50% of existing commercial buildings must be retrofitted to ZNE by 2030. However currently available technologies pose challenges to reaching these objectives in cost-effective way. As an example, photovoltaic devices which bring high hopes and expectations to NZEBs, can currently only cover roofs, not allowing to optimally use the majority of building surface. They only generate energy from direct natural light and cannot be used on existing buildings without the need of severe structure modifications. Similar challenges (compliance with regulations, search for optimal efficiency-cost ratio, need for constant performance improvement while maintaining aesthetic features) are also faced by many other industries (automobile, aeronautics, consumer goods – electronics, clothing, etc.)
Saule Sp. z o. o. (Saule Technologies) aims to address these challenges by introducing the first-on-the-market perovskite solar cells (PSC) which are efficient, flexible, semi-transparent and inexpensive solar panels.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysolar energy
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringarchitecture engineeringsustainable architecturesustainable building
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
54-427 Wroclaw
Polonia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.