The Japan -based Startup PXP Corporation and JGC Japan Corporation, a unit of JGC Corporation, are working together on a 1 kW of one -year project to test lightweight chalcopyrite panels in Yokohama City.
JGC Japan Corporation, an engineering, purchasing and building unit of JGC Holdings Corporation, and PXP Corporation, a developer of flexible, lightweight PV module technologies, working together on a year, 1 kw, grid-coppyrite, a developer of flexible, lightweight PV module technologies2) Solar panels on a building in Yokohama City.
Cugase2 Has an energy band gap of 1.7 EV and has been used to date in solar cells with a limited filling factor and open circuit voltage.
The PXP Corporation Cugase2 Prototypes are installed in a JGC facility in Yokohama City on a building with a surface that mimics the type of folded plate roofs in Japanese factories and warehouses.
Hiroki Sugimoto, CEO of PXP attached to PV -Magazine That the 1 KW system is connected to a grid and that the modules 2 kg per square meter (m2) weigh with the capacity of 100 to 120 W/m2.
PXP has plans to make 160 to 180 W/m2 Cugase2 Modules and it also develops perovskiet-chalcopyrite tandem cell technology. “When it comes to Perovskiet-Chalcopyrite tandem cells, our goal is 260 to 280 W/m2,” Sugimoto said.
The panels in the study are secured with a new sheet-based solution developed by JGC to quickly and safely install the lightweight PV panels on industrial roofs. The assembly technology, which is pre-commercial, relies on a heat-screen polymer plate with the flexible PV modules on it and held in place by a metal tube component with a gripper output.
Early results indicate that an employee could possibly install 100 square meters per day using the JGC mounting system. It is said that it is also much easier to release than competing types of non-penetrating solar panel mounting systems.
The project started in April for a duration of about a year.
PXP Corporation recently secured JPY 1.5 billion ($ 9.98 million) in a round led by Japanese Softbank Corp. To continue with his plan to build a 25 MW Chalcopyrite mode factory.
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