Rebuilding made-in-Europe Photovoltaic production
Digitalised pilot lines for silicon heterojunction tunnel interdigitated back contact solar cells and modules
Introduction of the project
PILATUS is a 3-year project aiming to demonstrate three digitalised pilot lines for the production in Europe of silicon wafers, solar cells, and solar modules.
PILATUS will leverage on the patented and already proven back-contacted silicon heterojunction “tunnel-IBC” technology to ensure achieving its ambitious targets as well as the expertise of the partners on analysing and characterising the PV cells and modules in- and out-doors.
PILATUS in figures
71% progress
PILATUS started on the first of November 2022 and will run for 36 months
10,158,731 €
funding from the European Commission under the Horizon Europe programme
19 partners
from 8 different countries
PILATUS Partners
Uniresearch
Meyer Burger (Germany) GmbH
Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE
FZU (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
Eurac Research
Exateq GmbH
TNO (Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek )
Norsun AS
Université de Liège
Padanaplast
ISRA VISION GmbH
Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
Pasan SA
Wacker Chemie AG
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
