Deadline Date: April 15, 2026
The European Commission is inviting grant applications to supports the large-scale demonstration and market readiness of integrated photovoltaic technologies to strengthen Europe’s solar energy transition.
The focus areas and objectives include increasing the commercialisation potential of integrated photovoltaic technologies, strengthening competitive technological know-how for the European PV industrial base, increasing recyclability and minimising environmental impact, introducing new business models and opening new markets in IPV manufacturing, reuse and recycling, supporting the execution of the solar energy joint research and innovation agenda, demonstrating innovative IPV manufacturing technologies at scale, deploying flexible IPV production pilot lines above 100 kWp, and demonstrating dedicated recycling and material recovery processes for diverse IPV products.
The total indicative budget for this action is 15,000,000, with individual project grants expected to be around 5,000,000. This level of funding is intended to support large-scale demonstrations, pilot manufacturing lines, and advanced recycling processes that can significantly accelerate the commercial readiness and market adoption of integrated photovoltaic technologies in Europe.
Integrated photovoltaic technologies present specific production challenges due to the wide diversity of products in terms of format, shape, materials, and technical constraints. While these technologies offer significant opportunities to unlock additional solar PV potential in Europe, their market uptake is limited by the lack of suitable infrastructure to demonstrate technically and economically innovative solutions at scale.
This action addresses these barriers by supporting the demonstration of suitable and flexible IPV manufacturing technologies capable of operating at significant scale. Pilot production lines are expected to enable testing and validation of IPV solutions at capacities exceeding 100 kWp, linked to relevant demonstration sites to assess real-world performance and economic viability.
Given the lower level of standardisation of IPV components compared to conventional PV modules, the action also emphasizes the demonstration of recycling and material recovery processes adapted to different sizes, materials, and technologies. This includes solutions for building-integrated, infrastructure-integrated, agricultural, vehicle-integrated, and floating photovoltaic applications, with the objective of reducing environmental impact and improving circularity.
Projects are expected to develop strong exploitation and dissemination strategies where results lead to new products, processes, or services. These strategies should be supported by a solid business case and include preliminary plans for scalability, commercialisation, and deployment, such as feasibility studies and business plans, while identifying potential funding sources to support future market uptake.
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