PILATUS v2 - Digitalised pilot lines for silicon heterojunction tunnel interdigitated back contact solar cells and modules

Pilatus是一个为期3年的项目，旨在到2025年在欧洲示范三条生产硅片、太阳能电池和组件的数字化中试线。Pilatus将利用获得专利并已得到验证的背接触硅异质结“隧道-IBC”技术，以确保实现其雄心勃勃的目标。Pilatus将证明挪威使用来自欧洲的多晶硅的M10硅片的生产能力为15兆瓦，并证明将产能扩大到5 GW晶片的可行性。Pilatus的光伏组件试点生产线将达到至少170兆瓦的年产能，同时190兆瓦的电池产能本身就将使欧洲目前的光伏电池总产能增加30%。将在线计量和室外监测与整个生产线上的Industry 4.0概念的支持相结合，将对在Pilatus试验线上制造的电池和模块进行分析，并向制造过程提供反馈，以确保在项目结束时达到90%的成品率。以建立具有高耐用性的光伏组件为目标，Pilatus旨在通过对退化机制的基本洞察并提供缓解解决方案来展示迈向&>40年产品寿命的道路，这要归功于将在项目范围内开发的在线和室外计量单元。此外，Pilatus将通过展示完全由回收材料制成的模块、促进光伏电池板拆卸的生态设计实践以及符合环境标准的制造工厂，实现与当前技术相比减少的环境足迹。简而言之，皮拉图斯将为重建“欧洲制造”、领先、具有竞争力的光伏产业做出贡献，整个价值链保留在欧洲，符合最新的环境标准，从而提高未来欧盟低碳能源体系的可负担性、供应安全性和可持续性。Pilatus项目网站

PILATUS is a 3-year project aiming to demonstrate by 2025 three digitalised pilot lines for the production in Europe of silicon wafers, solar cells, and modules. PILATUS will leverage the patented and already proven back-contacted silicon heterojunction “tunnel-IBC” technology to ensure achieving its ambitious targets. PILATUS will prove a production capacity of 15 MW for M10 silicon wafers in Norway using polysilicon from Europe and demonstrate the feasibility of an expansion to 5 GW wafer production capacity. PILATUS’ PV module pilot line will reach a minimum of 170 MW of annual production capacity, accompanied by190 MW cell capacity that by itself adds 30% to the current total capacity for PV cell production in Europe. Combining inline metrology and outdoor monitoring with the support of Industry 4.0 concepts all along the production chain, the cells and modules fabricated on PILATUS’ pilot lines will be analysed and feedback provided to the manufacturing process to ensure reaching = 90 % yield at the end of the project. With the goal to establish PV modules with high durability, PILATUS aims to demonstrate the way towards > 40 years product lifetime by gaining fundamental insights into the degradation mechanisms and providing mitigation solutions thanks to the inline and outdoor metrology units that will be developed within the scope of the project. Further, PILATUS will achieve a reduced environmental footprint compared to current technologies by demonstrating modules fully made from recycled materials, eco-design practices to facilitate the dismantling of PV panels, and manufacturing plants compliant with environmental standards. In short, PILATUS will contribute to re-building a “made in Europe”, leading-edge, competitive PV industry with the entire value chain retained in Europe, compliant to the latest environmental standards, hence fostering the affordability, the security of supply, and the sustainability of the future EU low-carbon energy system. PILATUS Project website