Project Facts
BOOSTER project start: | September 2020 |
BOOSTER project duration: | 48 months |
BOOSTER project budget: | 8.2 mln € (EU contribution: 6.1 mln €) |
Project call: | Next generation of thin-film PV technologies |
The BOOSTER project targets the deployment of organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology to the building applied photovoltaic (BAPV) market. OPV is a technology that addresses the problematic of global energy production with an eco-responsible approach. Manufacturing OPV modules via printing techniques features a low energy-payback-time and uses resources that are abundant, easily accessible and non-toxic. Additionally, OPV demonstrates properties (flexibility, lightweight) that make it easily suitable for BAPV. Recently, technology benefited from a rapid progress of performances with development of advanced materials. The project BOOSTER aims at bringing the OPV technology to a TRL 7 by increasing efficiency, lifetime together with optimizing costs and lowering carbon footprint.
Two demonstrators will be installed to illustrated BAPV concepts: (1) a “ready to stick module” and (2) a textile integrated product. BOOSTER will provide an efficient multi-layer OPV architecture demonstrating efficiency up to 15 %. Advanced multifunctional barrier films will be manufactured to increase the lifetime to 35 years. With a large-scale production approach, efforts will be placed on scaling up all the materials and optimization of the R2R manufacturing line to coat all the layers with minimization of performance loss while targeting drastic cost reduction. BOOSTER BAPV products will be integrated in two different locations (FAU in Germany, ENI in Italy), where real-life efficiency will be studied during last year of the project.
BOOSTER project start: | September 2020 |
BOOSTER project duration: | 48 months |
BOOSTER project budget: | 8.2 mln € (EU contribution: 6.1 mln €) |
Project call: | Next generation of thin-film PV technologies |