Radovan Kopecek,

ISC Konstanz

“Backcontact technology could become main stream for roof top, building integration as well as for product integration, as there are several advantages that clearly overcompensate the past draw-backs. One of the major draw-backs was the costly IBC technology, which we disabled by the high efficient low cost ZEBRA technology. Let´s restart production in EU with combining the best technologies of EU´s leading institutes in future.  ”

Gaëtan Masson,

president ESMC

"This unique module of Energyra and it's partners offers a massive opportunity to the EU's advanced manufacturing industry and its suppliers. It also makes Europe less dependent of Asian imports, which recently fell sharply due to the Covid-19 crisis."

Daniël Kuijk,

general manager Energyra Europe

"The IconIQ solar panel combines two high-quality technologies, offering many advantages, such as lead-free, solder-free contacting and greatly improved robustness. The latter translates into an extraordinary lifetime of the IconIQ solar panel. The fact that our panel is not only lead-free, but also free of fluorine and PFAS certainly doesn't apply to mainstream panels. To achieve something like this, you need the entire value chain. IconIQ proves that we really can do that in Europe. ”

Maarten Wijdekop,

senior business developer TNO

"It’s fantastic to see that the module technology that has been developed by my colleagues at TNO is implemented in this high quality solar panel. Over the past 15 years we have worked hard to innovate and advance PV technologies, which are now being validated by the higher segments in the market. This votes for a sunny future of the European PV industry! ”

The solar cells in the IconIQ module that drive its high performance are based on the ‘ZEBRA’ IBC (Interdigitated Back Contact) technology developed by ISC Konstanz, which is the lowest cost IBC technology reaching efficiencies up to 24% in production. The current technology reaches voltages above 700mV without the need of passivating contacts.   

The IconIQ module design is based on back-contact interconnection, an industrially proven concept that was developed by in the Netherlands by ECN (now part of TNO). Back-contact modules can realise superior efficiencies because of their low cell-to-module loss factor, and offer desirable aesthetics. Their form-factor is more flexible than that of conventional modules, which makes it easier to integrate.