Description du projet
La technologie des panneaux solaires va considérablement étendre son application, bien au-delà des toits des bâtiments
L’époque de la «Petite maison dans la prairie», où l’on lisait à la bougie et où l’on se chauffait au bois, est bel et bien révolue. La population mondiale continue de croître et l’urbanisation impose des exigences énormes en matière de consommation d’énergie. Dans le même temps, le changement climatique exige que soient trouvées des alternatives aux combustibles fossiles. Le photovoltaïque, qui exploite l’énergie durable et propre du soleil pour produire de l’électricité, est en plein essor. Cependant, la plupart des installations dans les zones urbaines sont confinées sur les toits alors que la surface restante des bâtiments demeure inexploitée. Afin de continuer à moderniser nos infrastructures pour disposer d’un parc de bâtiments à consommation d’énergie quasi nulle (NZEB), il est indispensable de trouver de nouvelles solutions innovantes. Le projet PIPER, financé par l’UE, propose une technologie de panneaux solaires flexibles, semi-transparents et peu coûteux pour soutenir un changement progressif dans la mise en œuvre de la technologie photovoltaïque.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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
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SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
54-427 Wroclaw
Pologne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.