Dutch module producer Solarge has raised €3 million enterprise capital from new and current buyers to increase its not too long ago opened facility the place it produces light-weight, low carbon, panels for industrial and industrial rooftops.
Dutch photo voltaic panel producer Solarge has raised €3 million ($3.24 million) to extend manufacturing capability at its not too long ago inaugurated manufacturing facility in Weert. The corporate produces panels that weigh lower than 6 kg/m2 and are made with out per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). These merchandise are appropriate for industrial and industrial (C&I) roofs unable to help heavier, typical PV installations.
“Our present line is 100 MW or 200,000 modules yearly,” Solarge chief know-how officer (CTO), Gerard de Leede, instructed pv journal. “It’s the first of its sort, but it surely’s not a pilot manufacturing unit. We intend to maneuver on in our Weert services to about 300 MW, which is most in relation to ground area,”
Solarge’s panels are beginning to seem in C&I tasks throughout the Netherlands, such because the 225 kW rooftop undertaking constructed for Eindhoven-based Totally different Doorways firm. Its CTO mentioned that a number of new tasks are underway within the meantime, and shortly to be introduced.
“We foresee a rising demand for our polymer-based light-weight, round, PFAS-free rooftop photo voltaic modules. On the finish of 2025, early 2026, Solarge will increase additional with a brand new facility in The Netherlands of 500 MW, supported by the Nationwide Progress Fund within the Netherlands and different buyers,” mentioned de Leede, including that a big a part of the second plant shall be for building-integrated PV (BIPV) merchandise.
“This plant will develop to 1 GW after 2026 in a second part, additionally with Progress Fund and buyers,” mentioned de Leede.
With near-term plans to increase gross sales actions to neighboring markets in Belgium, Germany and France, the corporate can be engaged on licensing the know-how to be used in different areas. To that finish, it not too long ago signed a primary memorandum of understanding for a producing undertaking with funding firm Infrastructure Company of Nigeria (Infracorp Nigeria).
The brand new buyers becoming a member of the financing spherical are two impression funds, Phase2.earth and Orchard Participations, along with current early-stage buyers.
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