About the project
The SmartPV project will innovate and demonstrate new energy and resource-efficient smart glazing technologies that merges photovoltaic (PV) and smart window approaches for both localized electricity production and enhanced energy savings.
The project aims to increase the European competitiveness and innovation in the renewable energy sector, and suggests business models for new active glazing technologies that can be used in any industrial and end-user sector that uses transparent glazing.
The project builds on a cross-disciplinary approach that will contribute to all aspects of the CETP Joint Call 2023 program by combining PV, photonics, glazing and chromogenic technologies, as well as commercialization and user perspectives. The project will develop semi-transparent smart glazing that utilizes solar radiation falling onto the glazing to produce electricity while allowing for sufficient transparency. A “smart” glazing in this context is a glazing that has the ability to dynamically adjust its optical properties depending on environmental conditions and demand, thus ensuring thermal comfort while minimizing cooling and heating expenses. The smart glazing will also be able to regulate visible transmission to prevent glare, ensuring optimal visual comfort, and making unnecessary awnings, coatings and blinds.
