Soprasolar has revealed plans to combine Midsummer’s thin-film photo voltaic panels into its roof membranes, providing photo voltaic panels to clients whose rooftops can not stand up to the load of silicon panels.

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Swedish thin-film photo voltaic producer Midsummer and France’s Soprasolar, a subsidiary of roofing materials producer Soprema, have introduced plans to collaborate on an built-in photo voltaic roof product for low load-bearing rooftops.

Midsummer CEO Eric Jaremalm stated the collaboration may “open up a beforehand unexploited marketplace for photo voltaic cells on low load-bearing roofs … It may create a brand new European trade and on the identical time doubtlessly enhance the share of photo voltaic vitality within the European electrical energy combine. The market is large for photo voltaic cell-integrated roof materials options that may be put in even on weaker roofs, which is the case in many of the world’s nations with roofs that should not have to face up to the load of snow.”

Midsummer is presently setting up a CIGS photo voltaic module manufacturing facility in Sweden.

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