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Solar Cloth thin film photovoltaic panel

Ultra-flexible, thin-film (CIGS) and light solar panels relevant for tents, trucks, drones, airships...

March 2022

Solar Cloth thin film photovoltaic panel

Ultra-flexible, thin-film (CIGS) and light solar panels relevant for tents, trucks, drones, airships...

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date March 28, 2022
From France
Maturity stage TRL 9 / CRI 5-6 - Market competition driving widespread deployment &/"Bankable" grade asset class

Solar Cloth manufacture ultra flexible and thin film (less than 1 mm) solar panels aimed to be installed where other solar panels are not relevant and thus open a new market. It can be fixed on light building, textile areas (shade textile, tents...), trucks and small vehicles, boats, or be foldable and relevant for other usage like in greenhouses.

The Environmental Benefits

  • 1 square meter = 176Wp, less than 2kg and below 1mm thickness
  • At least 80% of efficiency at 20 year of age
  • Estimated carbon footprint is 15gr of CO2/kWh

The Financial Benefits

  • When installed on trucks, the panel avoid immobilisation breakdowns and the cost of an intervention
  • When installed on tents, the panel will allow to not be connected to the electrical grid
  • When installed textile greenhouses, this will allow to create a huge PV parc without the need of an additional structure

Target client profile

Activity Region

  • Headquarters
  • Activity

Company Profile

Solar Cloth

Solar Cloth manufacture tailor-made solar panels (CIGS); 176Wp and less than 2kg per square meter.

Headquarters 06210 Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
Type Startup or self-employed
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Networking Partner

PEXE

Réseau PEXE, the French Cleantech network, is the leading network of French cleantech clusters. Its main objective is to structure and promote the cleantech industry to accelerate the development of its 5000 SMEs.

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Capenergies

Capenergies is a french competitiveness Cluster adressing the topic of the energy transition for sustainable territories.

Solutions Associated 14
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ADEME

ADEME - The French Agency for Ecological Transition- is a public agency under the joint authority of the Ministry for an Ecological Transition and the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

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