Solarix Wins Future of Energy Award
Weesp, Netherlands, November 22, 2024 – We are proud to share that our industry partner, Solarix, has been awarded the prestigious Future of Energy Award in the category Commercial Project of the Year. This recognition celebrates the innovative integration of their vibrant green solar facade into the redevelopment of Brede Basisschool De Kikker, a project that exemplifies how renewable energy can be both functional and visually stunning.
National Growth Fund Program SolarNL
Si HJT cell factory
Flexible solar foils
Lightweight/integrated PV
National Economic Growth Fund (Nationaal Groeifonds) subsidy awarded
SolarNL Press release (in Dutch), June 30, 2023
SolarNL Press release (in English), June 30, 2023
Dutch Government Press release (in English), July 2023
Groeifonds application – Press release (in Dutch), March 7, 2023
Urgency
Our energy supply is changing dramatically and quickly, and in this transition, ecological necessity meets economic opportunity. The transition to renewable energy sources is necessary to evolve into sustainable economies and mitigate climate change. It also requires and creates vast opportunities for technological innovation and business creation – which this National Growth Fund proposal intends to grasp. Electricity from sunlight (photovoltaics, PV) will play a major role in the energy transition and is poised to grow worldwide to the ‘terawatt’ scale. In the Netherlands, the installed capacity is set to grow from 18 GWp today to 100-250 GWp in 2050. Hence, PV is a crucial ‘industry of the future’.
This Growth Fund proposal aims to create the necessary innovative PV technologies and industrial basis in the Netherlands to capture economic value of billions of euros for decades to come. In addition, this ‘local manufacturing’, using short lines from supply to markets, will generate multiple environmental benefits and reinforce strategic autonomy in our energy supply. On all these points, the proposal is fully aligned with the currently accelerating momentum towards new industrial public policies on EU level.