Partnership

MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS AND INITIATIVES REPRESENTING THE PV INDUSTRY

 

European Solar Manufacturing Council

The European Solar Industry Council (ESMC) promotes the production of solar energy “Made in Europe”, creating a political and business environment that supports industrial production and research as well as maintains their quality at the highest world level. It promotes the development and investment in PV technology across the entire PV value chain (i.e. materials, wafers, modules, inverters and other electronic components) to help integrate the PV industrial manufacturing system to strengthen the potential and competitiveness of PV equipment manufacturing in Europe. 

ESMC promotes:

 

  • sustainability criteria in publicly supported PV deployment programmes,
  • closer networks between the European photovoltaic industry and research and development centres,
  • maintaining strategically important intellectual property in Europe, especially when it is developed with European taxpayers’ money,
  • financial risk reduction and financial support guaranteed or provided by public sources for large-scale productive investments in Europe, including a possible French-German-Polish initiative on a gigawatt scale led by industrial companies responsible for production,
  • policy of attracting market players to support innovative technologies developed by the EU in European countries

More: https://esmc.solar/

 

European Solar Industry Aliance 

The ESIA Industrial Alliance aims to accelerate the deployment of photovoltaics in the EU by increasing to 30 GW of annual photovoltaic production capacity in Europe by 2025, facilitating investment, reducing the risk of accelerating the sector and supporting Europe’s decarbonisation goals. Appointed by the European Commission in 2022. EIT InnoEnergy leads the alliance as the Secretariat, and SolarPower Europe and the European Solar Industry Council (ESMC) are members of the alliance’s steering committee.

More: https://solaralliance.eu/

 

PV IPCEI

IPCEI (Important Projects of Common European Interest) are large-scale projects connecting companies and research centers from different Member States and bringing significant benefits in terms of EU strategic objectives (competitiveness, sustainable growth, societal challenges, value creation). The implementation of the IPCEI allows Member States to address market failures by significantly funding research and innovation activities with a derogation from EU state aid rules. Poland is one of the seven countries that supported the creation of PV IPCEI. Giga PV S.A., in cooperation with IEO, prepared the project “Manufacturing of TOPCon PV cells and silver paste with optimized silver contacts”, which received the support of 12 EU industrial and research partners and was included in the list of 8 most promising projects with the support of the European Commission and the Polish government. 

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Sector Agreement of the PV Industry with the Government of the Republic of Poland

As part of the work on the “Sector Agreement” of the PV industry conducted by the Ministry of Climate and Environment, 18 major companies with an established international position are working in the area of “industry development”. Members of the Industrial PV Panel are signatories to the agreement and contributed to the work of the group for the development of the domestic photovoltaic industry (coordinator: Grzegorz Wisniewski, president of Giga PV S.A.), whose work, apart from increasing domestic supplies of photovoltaic equipment, will be focused on activities related to financing and promotion export of Polish solutions in the field of PV and, for example, recycling of PV equipment components. An important contribution to the creation and work of the communication was the IEO report “Local content in the Polish photovoltaic industry”.

As part of the work of the Industrial PV Panel, the effects of which will include contribution to the sectoral agreement with the Ministry of Climate and Environment and the government administration; promoting exports, financing the production of devices, developing good practices and ethical standards that should be followed by companies from the PV industry, indicating the share of local materials and services in manufactured products in order to introduce regulatory solutions to promote Polish entrepreneurs and other activities aimed at supporting and developing the industry photovoltaics in Poland. President of Giga PV S.A. Grzegorz Wisniewski is a member of the board of the “Agreement”. 

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