A wood solar home for EUR1,700 per square meter

• French startup Solaire Box has actually increased EUR1.5 million to back its service providing wood homes full with PV roofs. The structures price EUR1,700-2,000/ m ² and also function PV components made by French company Systovi. The business intends contribute to include attributes such as power storage space systems as well as carbon-free home heating.

A French startup which is providing zero-carbon wood houses full with solar roofs has actually elevated EUR1.5 million from institutional and also personal capitalists in its most recent financing round.

Solaire Box stated brand-new financiers consisted of Paris-based financial backing business Inco as well as the Inter Invest fund in addition to people by means of the Sowefund crowdfunding system.

" These funds allow us to consist of extra ingenious functions to our item and also to enhance the marketplace share of our brand-new series of zero-carbon homes, initially introduced in October 2019," stated Solaire Box CEO Thomas Coquil.

The item is a wood home the business has actually been creating for 5 years. "After building 100 yard workshop as well as residence projects because its launch in 2015, Solaire Box is aiming to develop 635 homes by 2023," claimed Coquil.

An actual home

Your house, which has a pre-fabricated framework made from French-grown Douglas fir wood as well as timber fiber, can be constructed in less than 4 weeks on-site, according to its maker. "Our Solaire Box, nevertheless, have to not be taken into consideration ... pre-fabricated residences, as they are genuine homes," the business's advertising supervisor, Charline Balfourier, informed pv magazine. "These residences appreciate the exact same regulations as standard concrete or block homes: development of structures, ask for an authorization, ten-year insurance policy and also a Contrat de building de maison individuelle." The last is France's major basic type of structure contract for brand-new homes.

If they select, balfourier stated proprietors can link to the grid. Otherwise, she stated, "we mount lithium-ion batteries to keep the power generated [by the PV roof]".

The advertising and marketing supervisor included: "Some of our consumers pick this choice when they are much from the general public network yet we do not suggest it by default due to the fact that it indicates having an additional power generator as well as this violates our eco-friendly viewpoint.".

The wood solar residence expenses EUR1,700-2,000 per square meter.

The solar roof covering.

The PV system utilized can have a generation capability of 6-9 kW as well as functions solar components from French producer Systovi and also placing systems by French professional IRFTS Solutions.

" We normally ... set up 9 kW for a home unless specific demand is made by our customer that would certainly such as a reduced power, yet also in this situation, the photovoltaic panels cover a bulk of the roofing," Balfourier stated. "We normally mount 30 components on the roof covering of our residences or workshop, with a power of 300 Wp for every, to get to a complete power of 9 kW.".

Solaire Box usually utilizes Systovi's V-SYS Pro monocrystalline and also polycrystalline PV components. These panels have a power result of 250-300 W as well as performances of 17.01-18.4%.

" The wood framework of the roof covering is made in the manufacturing facility, after that the placing frameworks are mounted [at] the building website and after that the photovoltaic panels are released," Balfourier stated. "The photovoltaic panels cover the whole south area for two-sided roofing systems or the whole area for a single-slope roof covering, as well as likewise make the roof covering waterproof.".

Development.

" At the minute we are just developing our homes in France however strategy to carry out in several [of the] globe's various areas," Balfourier included.

Of the EUR1.5 million the firm lately increased, around EUR600,000 originated from Inter Invest Capital and also will certainly be committed to the advancement of the Solaire Box subsidiary in the Antilles and also French Guyana which was developed in 2017.