Start of the ShinePV Project

January 1, 2025

In January, LPVO began participating in the international Horizon Europe project ShinePV. The ShinePV consortium includes 17 partners from 10 European countries. The project is led by the Irish and the Italian branch of Applied Materials, a corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the production of semiconductor chips for a wide range of electronics, including solar cells.

ShinePV will develop alternative technological routes to PV production for Silicon Heterojunction (SHJ) and Tunnel Oxide Passivared Contact (TOPCon) solar cells, covering the three key steps in the back-end manufacturing: metallization, post-processing and interconnection. The goal of the project is to reinforce the sustainability of the European PV value chain building a secure, resilient, and diverse domestic energy sector industrial base.