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Solar film you can stick anywhere to generate energy is nearly here | Since 2012, UK-based Power Roll is one step closer to manufacturing its lightweight film, with a new design for its perovskite solar cells that should drop production costs.
Since 2012, UK-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now one crucial step closer to manufacturing its lightweight, apply-anywhere film, with a new design for its perovskite solar cells that should make make production…
Essentially, the team, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Sheffield, has devised a new microgroove structure with a back-contact format – with all the electrical contacts of the solar cell on the back rather than in front. That means you can install it on all kinds of surfaces including non-loading bearing rooftops, transport it to remote areas that need accessible options for generating electricity, and hopefully, blanket many currently unproductive buildings and spaces with it so you've got many more sources of clean energy to supply the grid. Last October, Power Roll raised US$5.4 million in a funding round to grow its fully operational manufacturing plant's production capacity.
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