ESMC launches EU-wide project for solar manufacturing, member states urged to join

• The European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC) has actually launched an Important Project of Common European Interest (IPCEI) for PV aimed at mobilising EU member states' support for breakthrough solar manufacturing technologies and also aiding their commercialisation.

The IPCEI-PV was introduced on Friday at an event in Brussels as well as brought together high-level reps from the European Commission, member states and also the PV manufacturing industry to check out how the process would certainly work, the current EU manufacturing landscape and story the following steps required to kickstart the process.

It comes close on the heels of the EU's brand-new Solar Energy Strategy that outlined its strategies to establish a European Solar PV Industry Alliance developed to help with the growth of a commercial solar value chain in the EU that also offered specific support for member states pooling their resources to concentrate on "breakthrough technologies and innovation".

The ESMC stated it sustained "the various other efforts presented in the EU Solar Energy Strategy," which has actually been well gotten by Europe's solar sector, "consisting of the establishment of the EU Solar PV Industry Alliance, which will map the accessibility of financial support, bring in exclusive investment and assist in discussion and also matchmaking between producers as well as offtakers".

It also stated the IPCEI-PV framework was developed to "make certain the long-term competition of the European PV manufacturing industry by mobilising EU member specifies assistance for the innovative as well as breakthrough PV technologies".

Today, the IPCEI-PV framework constitutes 6 projects however complementary projects as well as contracts from across the value chain rate to join, the ESMC claimed.

It was concurred at the event that all EU member states will be welcomed to sign up with the effort throughout "the forthcoming weeks" with the goal of making a decision and introducing different programmes this summer.

Five member states-- Austria, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland and Spain-- have actually already shared their complete support for the IPCEI-PV framework, while Spain has agreed to lead as well as coordinate the process.