Heliatek Supplies HeliaFilm for Asia’s Largest BIOPV Installation in Singapore

Heliatek’s partner, vTrium Energy, will be implementing the world’s most powerful and Asia’s largest BIOPV (building integrated organic photovoltaic) project. Heliatek’s organic solar film, HeliaFilm, will be the core part of this installation in Singapore, which provides a test-bed platform for new sustainable technologies.
 
This project is funded and supported by Jurong Town Corporation (JTC, Singapore) and SPRING (Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board, Singapore). The findings from this project will help to create a base for the future energy mix for Singapore.
 
HeliaFilm will be installed on 226m² with a peak power of more than 12 kWp. Three different parts of JTCs buildings in Cleantech Park 1 and 2 and Seletar Aerospace walkway will be covered with solar films.
 
HeliaFilm will be implemented with various building materials: within and on glass, on steel and on curved polycarbonate. Several versions of HeliaFilm will be used: full power opaque, transparent with two different transparency levels (15% and 30%), and different colors.
 
“The combination of several HeliaFilm versions and the application in different orientations on various materials makes this project very exciting for us,” stated Thibaud Le Séguillon, CEO from Heliatek. “In a relatively short period of time, we are going to get a comprehensive dataset about our solar films’ performances in tropical climates.”
 
Conventional silicon becomes less efficient as the temperature rises but HeliaFilm is not affected by increased temperatures. “This real world test in a hot sunny climate, where solar is an obvious choice, will demonstrate the huge advantage of HeliaFilm technology over conventional silicon,” Le Séguillon added.
 
The implementation will start in May 2015 and the project will run for at least 18 months. The independent monitoring of this pilot will be performed by the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS).