The Rolling Solar project integrates solar cell materials into pavements and street furniture
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him1 million kilometers of roads not only to walk and connect cities and nations, but also to generate renewable energy: the Rolling Solar project integrates solar cell materials into pavements and street furniture. It is the last frontier of the ecological transition.
As stated on the project website, funded by the European Commission and by some provinces of Belgium and the Netherlands through the Interreg Euregio Meuse-Rhine program, in recent years promising demonstrators have been made in which crystalline silicon solar cells are incorporated into cycle paths. , roads and in a wide variety of noise barriers.
However, the costs are still high, as production is not at industrial levels, and this is mainly because these systems are based on fragile silicon solar cells, which require severe mechanical protection and particular (and expensive) assembly.
But 1 million kilometers of roads internally connect Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, a heritage too rich not to be exploited.
The Rolling Solar project aims to catalyze a lasting cross-border collaboration - reads on the project website - between industry, research and other stakeholders on photovoltaics, materials, production, installation, network and road infrastructures
The consortium, coordinated by the Dutch research center TNO, aims precisely to reduce the costs of this technology, by using flexible and less brittle thin-film solar sheets in order to obtain aintegration more effective.
Started on 1 September 2018, the project will end on 31 August 2022 for a total of 48 months and a total cost of 5.721.741,87 EUR, but has already achieved some important results, including the construction of the first solar road section based on crystalline silicon solar cells, specifically at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus.
In collaboration with a large number of renowned research institutes, we are working to optimize today's technology as well create the one of tomorrow
explains Arian de Bondt, director of SolaRoad BV, the project's industrial partner
Towards the true ecological transition?
Fonti: Rolling Solar project
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