Originally scheduled for March 24, 2020, the Symposium has been postponed to December 7, 2020, and will be held online. At the time of cancellation, nearly 300 people were registered. We ask them to re-register by December 7. Symposium Flyer: click here to open.Posters: click here to open. Who was Edmond Becquerel? Edmond Becquerel was…
Read more“Les cellules solaires ultrafines” article de Stéphane Collin et Andrea Cattoni à lire dans le dernier numéro du magazine #Photoniques. Une revue de l’état de l’art des cellules solaires ultrafines, des stratégies pour marier #nanophotonique et #photovoltaïque, et des perspectives offertes par la démonstration récente de cellules solaires de près de 20 % d’efficacité et…
Read more9 July 2020, Brussels – SolarPower Europe organised the first virtual conference of the ‘Solar Manufacturing Accelerator’. The initiative, launched in May by SolarPower Europe, and coordinated with strategic partners ESMC, ETIP-PV, IPVF, and VDMA, aims to accelerate the deployment of solar PV manufacturing projects in Europe to strengthen European leadership in renewable technologies and…
Read moreSuite au report du Lyon-Canton à 2021, et parce que 2020 est une année beaucoup trop importante pour que le Sun Trip reste silencieux, nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la création d’une édition spéciale autour de la France. Maintenir le cap, être acteur du changement, renouer le contact avec l’autre, mettre en lumière “une France solaire…
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Read moreSolarPower Europe’s “Solar Manufacturing Accelerator”, a platform aimed at accelerating the deployment of solar PV manufacturing projects in Europe, is gaining momentum as the French Research Institute IPVF joins the initiative. IPVF has strongly advocated to re-initiate a European industrial strategy for solar: on 7th May 2020, IPVF spearheaded a coalition of more than 110 actors…
Read moreRenewed ETIP PV Steering Committee strives to represent European diversity and inclusion of all PV sector stakeholders: eight new Steering Committee Members welcomed The European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics (ETIP PV) Steering Committee met for the time in a virtual Steering Committee Meeting on 5 May 2020. One focus of the meeting was the discussion…
Read moreLe 2 mai 2020, IPVF et le CEA à l’INES, ont lancé un programme commun dans le domaine du photovoltaïque. L’objectif de cette collaboration, « Tandem Made in France », est d’accélérer le développement de cellules associant les matériaux pérovskites à la technologie d’hétérojonction de silicium afin de créer un dispositif tandem à haut rendement, transférable à…
Read moreBruxelles, le 5 mai 2020 – La coalition “Solar Europe Now”, lancée officiellement aujourd’hui, appelle à la reconnaissance de l’énergie solaire comme facteur essentiel à la réalisation des ambitions du Green Deal européen. Cette coalition, qui rassemble plus de 90 acteurs de la chaîne de valeur photovoltaïque européenne, craint que le manque actuel d’impulsion financière…
Read moreBrussels, 5 May 2020 – The coalition ‘Solar Europe Now’, which has been officially launched today, is calling for the recognition of solar energy as a key driver to deliver on the European Green Deal ambitions. This coalition which gathers currently over 90 actors from the European solar value chain is concerned that the current…
Read moreJérôme Fatet est historien des sciences et spécialiste des premiers travaux d’Edmond Becquerel. À l’occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance de Becquerel, auquel un symposium sera consacré cette année , il retrace le contexte des découvertes de ce savant injustement méconnu. Comment en êtes-vous venu à vous intéresser aux travaux d’Edmond Becquerel ? J’ai rencontré Edmond…
Read moreDear IPVF Friends, We will entering our fifth week of confinement and I hope you are safe and continue to take good care of yourselves and your loved ones. I know some of your relatives might be affected by the virus, we wish them all a prompt recovery. I trust you strictly apply the social…
Read moreThe publications of Edmond Becquerel were mostly in french and most of them were not translated in english. In the frame of the celebration his bicentenary in 2020, we have decided to translate some of his key papers to make them available to an international public. The first one Edmond Becquerel PV Original Paper concerns…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes.
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes. Programme 6 is dedicated to studying exploratory concepts and developing innovative…
Read moreThis tuesday, March 24th was the 200th anniversary of your birth. Everything was ready with organizing a symposium in your honour in the large amphitheatre Farabeuf near the Ecole de Médecine in Paris. We had thought big with about 470 possible participants and had a few cold sweats at the beginning of January, thinking that…
Read moreCe mardi 24 mars devait être le 200 ème anniversaire de ta naissance. Tout était prêt avec la tenue d’un symposium en ton honneur dans le grand amphithéâtre Farabeuf près de l’école de médecine à Paris. On avait même vu grand avec près de 470 participants possibles et eu quelques sueurs froides début janvier en se disant…
Read moreFace à l’épidémie COVID-19 qui sévit aujourd’hui, les hôpitaux français lancent des appels à la solidarité. Les matériels de protection manquent alors qu’ils sont indispensables pour la protection de nos forces médicales mobilisées en première ligne. Pour soutenir cet effort national sans précédent, l’IPVF et ses partenaires CNRS, EDF et TOTAL ont pris la décision…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes. Programme 5 is dedicated to solar-to-fuel. Producing Hydrogen from solar…
Read moreBertrand Lavedrine, Professeur du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle fut Directeur du Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (CRC) de 1998 à 2019. Il est co-organisateur du Symposium Edmond Becquerel qui devait se tenir le 24 mars 2020 à l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa naissance. Il nous explique quelle portée ont eu les travaux d’Edmond Becquerel,…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes. Programme 4 is dedicated todeveloping and applying innovative and high-performance characterization…
Read moreHappy Women’s day! The Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France (IPVF) is celebrating us, women, the women of IPVF, who have made a difference in changing lives through our innovations and mentorship. This day provides an important opportunity to celebrate our ideas, our infallible spirit and our commitment to encourage others to take on challenges and pursue their…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes. Programme 3 is dedicated to developing low-cost III-V tandem solar cells. Lowering…
Read moreAlready 6 years ! In 2014, the Institut Photovoltaïque d’Île-de-France (IPVF) was launched within the framework of a French national program aiming at the creation of institutes for energy transition (ITE, one of the “Investments for the Future” supported by the French government) and it is time to repeat our warm backing to this wonderful…
Read more« Perspectives des technologies du Photovoltaïque » Académie des Technologies 08/01/2020 Jean-François Minster, Académie des Technologies, Président de l’IPVF Un séminaire sur les perspectives du Photovoltaïque à l’horizon 2030 a été organisé en séance plénière de l’Académie des Technologies, le 8 janvier 2020. Les intervenants étaient Florence Lambert (Directrice du CEA-Leti), Daniel Lincot (Ancien Directeur Scientifique de…
Read moreIPVF signs letter calling for European industrial strategy for solar On 27-28 February, EU ministers will discuss the impact of the European Green Deal on industry at the Competitiveness Council, with the expectation of adopting new conclusions on better regulation. In light of debates on industrial strategy and internal markets, the French research centre, Institut Photovoltaïque…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research initiative brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured in 6 programmes. Programme 2 is dedicated to developing a wafer-size tandem module demonstrator…
Read moreIPVF is a public-private partnership dedicated to accelerating energy transition through science & technology. The core values of IPVF are Excellence, Innovation, Collaboration. Its collaborative research brings together internationally recognized academic research teams and industrial leaders. It is structured into 6 programmes. Programme 1 is dedicated to guiding the technological development of IPVF through…
Read moreLe Dr. Pierre Verlinden travaille depuis 40 ans au développement du photovoltaïque, avec “un pied dans la recherche et un pied dans l’industrie” : titulaire d’un PhD de l’Université de Louvain, il a été le directeur de la R&D chez SunPower aux États-Unis, avant de rejoindre Origin Energy, puis Solar Systems en Australie. Il est…
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