L R AS Published on Sunday 8 December 2019 - n° 301 - Categories:Europe, R&D
Exceeding 20% of the efficiency of CIGS thin film coatings
Manufacturers and research institutes across Europe want to improve the production of CIGS panels. Called SUCCESS, the project aims to achieve production efficiencies in excess of 20% for 30 x 30 cm panels. This new
project funded by the European Union will run until May 2023.
It involves the Dutch equipment manufacturer SMIT Thermal Solutions, the Chinese manufacturer of CIGS Avancis panels, and the research institutes Helmholtz Zentrum (Berlin, Germany), Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, (Nantes) and TNO / Solliance (Netherlands).
In 2018, Japan's Solar Frontier set the cell efficiency record for CIGS at 23.35% with a 1 x 1 cm cell.
PV Magazine of 5 December
Editor's note Either Europe is trying to finance the Chinese, or there is something wrong! The Chinese Avancis has managed to infiltrate a European project. He will extract strategic and technological information from it, then put it into practice in his production lines. Is this what the promoters of this project wanted? Who is the European decision-maker and how much thought has gone into it? How can we, after that, want to have a European industry if Europeans pay and the Chinese reap the benefits? What an image Europeans give! We really have to hope that the new European Commission will have a little more strategic vision and a little less stupidity.
