Opendata, web and dolomites

ETC Solarshade SIGNED

Invisible metal contacts for solar cells – boosting power output while cutting costs

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 ETC Solarshade project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the ETC Solarshade project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "ETC Solarshade" about.

sunlight       printing    sales    surface    contributor    highest    36m    founding    transparent    flat    specialist    ongoing    cars    expressed    ects    contacts    tests    losses    commercial    customer    team    back    adopting    power    eliminate    satellites    annual    onto    etcs    9bn    contact    world    beachhead    integrate    performing    solar    experts    manufacturers    metal    electricity    pilot    active    revenues    19    excellence    blocking    total    aerospace    cells    95    transition    performance    serviceable    front    manufacturer    market    cell    consumables    transparency    conditional    reaching    plus    orders    output    unlike    incoming    europ    tool    size    eacute    patented    launch    sell    commercially    global    optical    funnel    area    shading    conductivity    incumbent    single       99    energy    convert    235m    technologies    recurring    addressable    boost    redirect    cover    customers    prototype    excellent    founder   

Project "ETC Solarshade" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
ETC SOLAR BV 

Organization address
address: MARCONISTRAAT 16
city: ROTTERDAM
postcode: 3029 AK
website: n.a.

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country Netherlands [NL]
 Total cost 2˙903˙347 €
 EC max contribution 2˙032˙343 € (70%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.3. (PRIORITY 'Societal challenges)
2. H2020-EU.2.3. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs)
3. H2020-EU.2.1. (INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies)
 Code Call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2
 Funding Scheme SME-2
 Starting year 2019
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2019-10-01   to  2021-09-30

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    ETC SOLAR BV NL (ROTTERDAM) coordinator 2˙032˙343.00

Map

 Project objective

Solar cells use metal contacts to convert sunlight into electricity. Flat metal contacts typically cover 5% of the solar cell front surface, blocking some incoming sunlight from reaching the active area of the solar cell. This shading loss is the largest single contributor to performance loss in 95% of commercial solar cells.

Excellence ETC Solar has developed Effectively Transparent Contacts (ETCs) that eliminate shading losses. Unlike incumbent technologies, our patented ETCs efficiently redirect sunlight back to the active area of solar cells. ECTs achieve optical transparency of 99.9%, offer excellent conductivity and boost solar cell power output by 5%: they are the world’s highest performing front contact technology. We developed and built a specialist printing tool to integrate ETCs directly onto solar cells.

Impact In this project, we will commercially launch ETCs in our beachhead market, III-V solar cells – widely used in satellites, aerospace, cars and consumer products. We will sell the ETC printing tool directly to solar cell manufacturers. The total III-V solar cell market size is €9BN; the Serviceable Addressable Market is €235M, plus annual recurring revenues of €36M for consumables.

Implementation The founding team includes experts in solar energy the US and Europé, and the founder of the world’s largest III-V solar cell manufacturer. This project will transition our working prototype into commercial production. Our global sales funnel already includes two conditional orders, four ongoing customer pilot tests and 19 potential customers who have expressed strong interest in adopting ETC technology.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "ETC SOLARSHADE" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "ETC SOLARSHADE" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.3.;H2020-EU.2.3.;H2020-EU.2.1.)

IMPACT (2019)

Improving DNA Analysis for Correct Healthcare

Read More  

COPI (2020)

Carbon Offset Plug-in

Read More  

AMBRPAY (2019)

Decentralized subscription payments with cryptocurrency

Read More