A consortium of Dutch organisations, including two university spin-outs, announce plans to develop climate chamber for solar testing.
A Dutch consortium of organisations and companies have come together to develop a climate chamber to test the performance and degradation of solar technology.
Solar tech firm Eternal Sun and environmental simulator firm Hielkema Testequipment, spin-outs of Delft University of Technology and Radboud University Nijmegan respectively, are in collaboration by measurement system maker ReRa Solutions, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research in Delft, Netherlands energy institute ECN, and European R&D consortium Solliance.
The objective of the project is to gain insight into the behaviour of solar cells. Data from the process should enable new research, with equipment from the tests expected to be commercialised itself in 2015.
Mirjam Theelen, Solliance researcher, said: “The existing test setup has been very successfully used to learn more about the degradation behaviour of new types of solar cells. There was a lot of interest from other research institutes for this setup, and we are very content with the fact that Dutch companies will bring it to the market in cooperation with us.”
