June 2024 was a bustling month for the photovoltaic (PV) community, highlighted by two key events: the Intersolar Europe in Munich and the 4th tandemPV Workshop in Amsterdam. These platforms provided PEPPERONI project partners with valuable opportunities to promote their work and present their latest results to a global audience.
Intersolar Europe: A Global Stage for Solar Innovation
From June 19-21, 2024, Munich hosted Intersolar Europe, the world’s leading exhibition for the solar industry. As part of the Smarter E Europe innovation hub at Messe München, the event provided an excellent platform for connecting key PV players, including manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, installers, service providers, project developers, planners, and start-ups.
PEPPERONI partners from Qcells, VON ARDENNE, Mondragon Assembly, and Teknisolar showcased their innovative solutions at the event. The Teknisolar booth prominently featured the PEPPERONI project, drawing considerable attention and engagement from attendees. Project partners engaged with various stakeholders fostering potential collaboration and highlighting the project’s advancements in perovskite/silicon tandem PV technology. The feedback from visitors to the booths was positive, emphasizing the interest in the innovative solutions.
tandemPV Workshop: a hub for innovation and scientific collaboration
Held from June 26-28, 2024, in Amsterdam, the 4th tandemPV Workshop attracted a vibrant mix of researchers, industry professionals, and PV enthusiasts. With 270 on-site and 35 online attendees, the workshop focused on critical aspects of tandem photovoltaic technology, including reliability, stability, accelerated testing, outdoor testing, energy yield, and bankability.
PEPPERONI partners, including CSEM, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), and Qcells, made significant contributions. Notably, representatives from HZB delivered insightful presentations, including three posters: Max Bernardes presented alternatives for vacuum deposition in tandem perovskite solar cells, Arman Mahboubi Soufiani introduced a new method for rate optimisation in thermal evaporation, and Quiterie Emery gave directions with “The don’ts of tandem solar cell encapsulation: a guide to avoiding mistakes
This workshop clearly showed that new PV technologies, such as perovskite/silicon tandem, have now shown promising efficiencies. The main focus should now be on increasing the stability of these technologies. This makes work around encapsulation of solar cells and indoor/outdoor testing even more relevant. The stability contest, aiming to identify the most stable tandem and single-junction perovskite devices, was particularly exciting. Overall, it was fantastic to gain insights from other research institutes and companies working on similar topics and to meet potential collaborators. I’m already looking forward to next year’s event! – Quiterie Emery (HZB)
Next to the insightful posters, Mark Khenkin gave a talk on light cycling as a key to understanding the outdoor behaviour of perovskite solar cells, Angelika Harter on approaches for industry-compatible processes and the PEPPERONI technology development coordinator, Fabian Fertig shared insights on silicon PV perspective on tandem research and development.
Overall, June’s events underscored the PEPPERONI project’s commitment to advancing photovoltaic technology and fostering collaborative efforts within the global PV community. The insights gained and shared are expected to propel the project forward, driving further innovation and potential impact on the solar energy sector.
For more details on these events, visit the tandemPV Workshop and Intersolar Europe websites.
Learn more about PEPPERONI partners: https://pepperoni-project.eu/partners/
Read more about TandemPV Workshop: https://tandempv.conexio-pse.de/
Read more about Intersolar Europe: https://www.intersolar.de/news-press
