AMPERE: The European PV Manufacturing Ready to Compete in the Premium High Efficiency Market
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Author
Colletti, Claudio
Gerardi, Cosimo
Bizzarri, Fabrizio
Strahm, Benjamin
Richter, Andre
Muñoz, Delfina
Izzi, Massimo
Levrat, Jacques
Ballif, Christophe
Nielsen, Øyvind
Abstract
A premium photovoltaic module technology with high efficiency, high reliability, and low LCOE has been industrialized in Europe by Enel Green Power in the framework of the H2020 funded project AMPERE, acronym for Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market.. An innovative full-scale automated 200MWp/y production line of innovative silicon heterojunction technology (HJT) PV bifacial cells and modules has been started up in 2019 in Catania (Italy). In this paper we report the main outcome of this successful project. All the processes, methods, techniques, automation systems developed in the project and used in production represent an innovation with respect to the market mainstream technologies and with respect to the current practice in PV industry. The manufacturing plant is actually representing a technological leap that revolutionizes the production of the system allowing a new line of European latest-generation bifacial photovoltaic HJT modules.
Publication Reference
EU PVSEC 2020, 2CO.13.6, p. 256 - 260
Year
2020-09-01