PXP Corp. And Suntory Holdings, both based in Japan, started testing the usability and performance of a vending machine equipped with pxp’s lightweight, glass -free solar panels in Sagamihara, Japan.
The Japanese PXP Corp., a startup that develops the solar technologies of Chalcopyrite and Perovskite, and Suntory Holdings, a Japanese brewing company, has started a one -year trial period to investigate the performance and usability of a sales machine equipped with PXPs in Sagamiha.
The project team will monitor the Suntory machine that is equipped with the glass-free, lightweight, thin film chalcopyrite (Cuinse2) panels supplied by PXP.
The panels are installed on both sides of the machine, the back and the top surface. “This time we introduced around 700 W panel in 5m2 area. About 1.6 kWh per day will be generated by PV,” Hiroki Sugimoto, the CEO of PXP, said told PV -Magazine.
The machine is designed to be energy efficient and is equipped with a secondary grid-connected food. Sugimoto indicated that the grid connection is used at night, that the solar panels can deliver 100% power during the day on a sunny day, but when “night hours are taken into account, the electricity coverage by solar cells is 60%.”
The use of chalcopyrite solar cell technology in a vending machine is a world first, according to the project team. The will be planting a second installation machine setup in the coming months.
PXP sees various benefits of its glass -free panels compared to conventional glass -packed silicon modules for this application, such as less rigid and lighter weight. It is expected that the amount of current generated will be larger than that of vending machines equipped with conventional solar panels. Previous attempts to combine machines and conventional silicon PV reportedly needed a mounting structure, and space restrictions limited the number of permitted solar panels per automatic.
If successful, the project partners noted that one of the results could be used as a power source in the case of a disaster.
PXP has a number of outdoor projects in various applications and locations. It also develops perovskiet chalcopyrite tandem cell technology. It recently protected daring capital of around $ 10 million in a round led by Japanese Softbank Corp.
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