SOLAR TAP - A Technology Acceleration Platform for emerging Photovoltaics
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Solar-TAP is a Helmholtz initiative with the goal to accelerate the deployment of multi-benefit photovoltaics based on emerging printed PV-Technologies like organic photovoltaics and perovskites.
SolarTAP shares the VIPERLAB visions by creating a strong network of industry partners to accelerate the commercialization of emerging PV technologies, especially for multi-benefit PV applications. Solar TAP wants to make existing surface areas in agriculture, construction and transportation usable for the expansion of solar energy through the use of printed solar cells. In this way, not „only“ green energy is generated, but in certain applications additional benefits are created resulting in a „multi-benefit“ for the respective application.
Together with its network of industrial partners, Solar-TAP is further developing the necessary technologies and transferring the results along the entire value chain „lab-to-fab“ in order to quickly make these new PV solutions market-ready and accelerate the commercial use of the technologies.
Partners
Solar TAP is a cooperation of the leading Helmholtz Centers for photovoltaic research.
In Solar TAP the three Helmholtz centers
- Forschungszentrum Jülich
- Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
are aligning their world class infrastructures in order to create the joint Technology Acceleration Platform and providing fast and simple access to laboratories, equipment and scientists through collaborative pre-financed projects.
Solar TAP encompasses
- 3 Helmholtz Centers,
- 9 major research infrastructures,
- and more than 25 scientists
Industry Network
Solar TAP wants to accelerate the transfer of technologies from „Lab-to-Fab“ through close cooperations with industry.
Within Solar TAP an active industry network is developed to foster the exchange between R&D and commercialization efforts. Solar TAP will create an environment to provide fast and proven solutions to industry by:
- transforming innovations from low to high TRL levels.
- reducing risks for industry by incorporating market needs into development.
- creating a technology roadmap for printed and multi-benefit PV.
- aligning nine world-class research infrastructures for targeted open innovation.
- harnessing the innovative energy of Helmholtz
SOLAR TAP infrastructures
Solar TAP combines some of the best research infrastructures in the world for the development, simulation and demonstration of emerging PV-technologies. VIPERLAB Project warmly invite interested scientists/researchers to contact the offered infrastructures:
- Core Lab Perovskite PV at KIT @ KIT
- Autonomous Materials and Device Application Platform (AMANDA) @HI ERN
- HySPRINT Innovation Lab @ HZB
- PVComB Lab @ HZB
- Solar Factory of the Future @EnCN
- Digital Twin Lab @ KIT/FZJ/HI ERN
- Living Lab BIPV @ HZB
- Agri-Food-Energy Parc (Agri FEe) @ FZJ
- Mobility PV Platform @ KIT/FZJ
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