French off-grid specialist Sunwind has developed a light-weight, curved photo voltaic panel to be used in ski resorts. It’s at the moment working with CEA-Liten to develop its personal photo voltaic panel encapsulation line.
From pv journal in France
France-based off-grid options supplier Sunwind has developed a PV module that can be utilized in ski stations, ski lifts and high-altitude resorts in mountainous areas.
“The mountain is in our DNA,”§ the corporate’s founder, Xavier Duport, stated pv journal in France. “The excessive mountain surroundings helps to provide photo voltaic electrical energy, attributable to extra irradiation, much less atmospheric air pollution, and a stronger albedo impact that results in 5 to 10% of the manufacturing of the extra in regards to the winter months due to the snowpack.”
For the modules, the corporate makes use of a particular encapsulation course of primarily based on a composite multi-layer that provides them the precise form of the polycarbonate facet home windows they exchange.
“It began on the Serre-Chevalier ski resort, within the Hautes-Alpes area, the place we solarized a ski carry station for the primary time, by changing the polycarbonate canopies with our semi-rigid photovoltaic panels referred to as eV+, which is 5 occasions lighter than a framed glass module,” stated Duport.
The 20%-efficient panels measure 1,020 mm x 2,000 mm and use PERC photo voltaic cells. The merchandise can be utilized in PV programs with energy from 7 kW to 12 kW relying on the scale of the floor.
“With a dozen ski areas geared up in France with eV+ panels, we’re opening a brand new market with ski carry producers,” he stated. “We’re companions with the Italian Leitner and the French group Poma, which now takes us internationally. Poma gives the set up of eV+ photo voltaic panels as normal in its catalog of ski carry stations, in addition to retrofitting current stations. The cabins are small off-grid networks, with eV + panels and a battery.
Sunwind at the moment encapsulates the panels on a manufacturing line operated by Italian subcontractor Solbian, however it hopes to quickly arrange its personal manufacturing gear.
“We began a analysis program with CEA Liten and the Rhône-Alpes area to develop our personal encapsulation line, which initially might attain 40 MW to 50 MW per yr,” stated Duport. “We need to supply a 100% European, or perhaps a 100% French product inside two years.
Sunwind doesn’t need to restrict itself to ski resorts and is trying to supply its eV+ panels to the development world.
“We additionally plan to make the most of a market that’s nonetheless little exploited, that of the facades of business buildings and the photovoltaic noise barrier,” stated Duport.
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