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Solar cells on roads, a new direction

for Europe's energy transition

Cross Border Cooperation
Another of the project's goals is to develop

sustainable cross-border collaboration

and share skills across research and
industry sectors. In a laboratory in

Eindhoven, thin and flexible photovoltaic

cells made from silicon-cadmium are
being developed in various forms. The

objective is to move from custom-made
to mass production.

Peter Toonssen, the project leader at
'Rolling Solar', describes what they do in

Eindhoven as pre-development on a small
scale of the end product. They test small The European Commission

size equipment to check its resistance to Michael Daenen, professor at Hasselt University a

all kinds of environmental influences, partner university of the project, says there are still
like moisture and various kinds of gases some hurdles to producing energy from roads and

that are normally in the atmosphere. This sound barriers.

is done to check the products will last.
Once this is ascertained, they produce There are still some doubts as to who owns the energy

the technology on a larger scale.
they produce and who might maintain the panels in

the case of an accident.
In Genk in Belgium, there's another

photovoltaic sound barrier on the He believes that these matters will be tackled in
Energyville campus. Three different types follow-up projects.

of solar cell units are connected to the

grid there. Temperature and mechanical For now, at Energyville campus, they are concentrating
deformations are closely measured. on "making it cheaper, making the legal aspects go

The next stages are also already being away and focusing on business economical models."
considered there.

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