Swiss PV start-up Flisom inaugurates pilot plant - financed by Tata Group Startupticker.ch | The Swiss Startup News channel
Summary
That’s, in a nutshell, Flisom’s development in the last two years, culminating in the pilot plant’s inauguration on 11 June in the presence of Swiss State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation, Mauro DellAmbrogio, and the President of the Government Council of the Canton Zurich, Ernst Stocker. A veteran in thin film photovoltaics with 35 years of experience, Flisom founder (and Head of Empa’s «Thin Film and Photovoltaics» lab) Ayodhya N. Tiwari is convinced that these cells have great potential for providing highly efficient solar modules and solar systems with low installation costs. Potential markets and applications for Flisom’s flexible solar module manufacturing technology include utility scale solar farms, building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV), building applied photovoltaics (BAPV), transportation and portable power – and thus a thus far untapped market potential of several billion Euros. At the same time, we are developing the technology further on 50 cm-wide rolls on our machines on the Empa campus», says Flisom’s Chief Operating Officer Sudheer Kumar. Some of the machines are based on many years of development by experienced experts, innovative proprietary designs and complex engineering making them unique for achieving cost- and performance-efficient targets for a breakthrough manufacturing.» The 15MW plant will serve as a blueprint for establishing larger production plants with a capacity of well over 100 MW.