AMPERE: The European PV Manufacturing Ready to Compete in the Premium High Efficiency Market

37th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition; 256-260
A premium photovoltaic module technology with high efficiency, high reliability, and low LCOE has been industrialized in Europe by Enel Green Power in the framework of the H2020 funded project AMPERE, acronym for Automated photovoltaic cell and Module industrial Production to regain and secure European Renewable Energy market.. An innovative full-scale automated 200MWp/y production line of innovative silicon heterojunction technology (HJT) PV bifacial cells and modules has been started up in 2019 in Catania (Italy). In this paper we report the main outcome of this successful project. All the processes, methods, techniques, automation systems developed in the project and used in production represent an innovation with respect to the market mainstream technologies and with respect to the current practice in PV industry. The manufacturing plant is actually representing a technological leap that revolutionizes the production of the system allowing a new line of European latest-generation bifacial photovoltaic HJT modules.