ENERGY · Industrial processes and equipment for innovative, reliable and scalable tandem technologies (EUPI-PV Partnership)

The REPowerEU plan and the EU Solar Energy Strategy introduced targets for the deployment of solar PV amounting to 600 GWac by 2030. Complying with these targets will be crucial for the European Union to reach its climate targets and free itself from import dependency on fossil fuels and the costs this imposes on Europe's competitiveness in terms of high energy prices. The Solar Strategy also introduces a target, which has been enshrined into the Net-Zero Industry Act, to…

Proposals are expected to: • Demonstrate tandem technologies with similar lifetimes to Si and higher efficiencies (beyond the Si limits); • Demonstrate interface and thin-film large scale engineering; • Demonstrate production processes and equipment ready for large scale deployment. Whenever the expected exploitation of project results entails developing, creating, manufacturing and marketing a product or process, or in creating and providing a service, the plan for the…