Low-cost printed flexible solar cells as substitute for current (1st and 2nd generation) photovoltaics for building integrated applications in India

气候变化和“能源三难困境”（可持续性、安全、公平）是影响我们所有人，但最重要的是影响发展中国家人口的全球性挑战。特别是印度目前的能源系统不可持续，造成极端污染，印度政府正在努力应对这些挑战，并设定了一个雄心勃勃的目标，即实现57%的增长率，该项目旨在通过开发一种太阳能产品来实现这些目标，该产品在设置成本，材料和能源消耗方面制造成本低。该项目将利用众所周知的印刷工艺，扩大钙钛矿光伏（PV）研究的最新进展，以生产原型，并通过行业标准测试建筑集成太阳能产品。该项目与英国领先的建筑集成光伏公司和印度清洁技术金融公司合作，该项目将把创新转移到印度的背景下，根据印度政府的“印度制造”倡议，在当地制造和部署。该项目的目标是在印度建立一个或多个新的企业，以完成成功将产品推向市场所需的当地供应链，创造就业机会和该地区的经济增长。

Climate change and the 'energy trilemma' (sustainability, security, equity) are global challenges that effect us all, but most of all, the populations of developing countries.India in particular has a currently unsustainable energy system that causes extreme pollution, is unreliable and unaffordable for many average people.the Indian Government is working incredibly hard to address these challenges and has set an ambitious target to generate 57% of India's energy from renewables by 2027.This project aims to contribute to these target by developing a solar energy product that is low-cost to manufacture in terms of set up costs, materials and energy consumption. The project will use well understood printing processes to scale-up recent advances in perovskite photovoltaic (PV) research to produce prototype, building integrated solar energy products tested to industry standards.Working in collaboration with a leading UK company of building integrated photovoltaics and an Indian cleantech finance firm, the project will transfer the innovation to the context of India where it can be locally manufactured and deployed in accordance with the Indian Government initiative of 'Make in India'. It is the goal of the project to create one or more new ventures in India to complete the local supply-chain required to successfully bring the product to market, creating jobs and economic growth in the region.