The Italian utility is laying the foundations for solar cell production at its PV panel manufacturing facility. The final goal of the project is 1 GW commercial cell production. Meanwhile, Enel Green Power has secured the PPA for a 34 MW PV facility in Zambia, and has broken ground on a 238 MW solar park in Mexico.Italian power provider Enel, which is active in the solar and renewable energy sectors through its unit Enel Green Power (EGP), is coordinating a research project aimed at setting up solar cell production at the company's manufacturing facility in Catania on the Italian island of Sicily.
The project, named Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market (AMPERE), is being funded by the EU with €14 million ($14.9 million). The project's partners are the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), the local research institute for microelectronics and microsystems CNR-IMM, and Italy-based Rise Technology, a start-up company in the interconnection and packaging for the microelectronics industry. Further international partners are Germany's Fraunhofer ISE, French Solar Energy Research Center (CEA-INES) and Meyer Burger Research AG among others.
The pilot production, ENEA said in a press release, will manufacture heterojunction solar cells based on crystalline and amorphous silicon. Final goal of the project is a PV module ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...