牛津光伏和Meyer Burger脱落威胁欧洲的太阳能产业
Two of Europe’s leading perovskite solar cell technology companies are on the verge of a bruising legal battle that could hold back production of solar panel in the region.
Perovskite pioneer Oxford PV has completed its tandem solar cell manufacturing site in Germany and at the same time terminated its deal with its major shareholder and equipment supplier, Meyer Burger.
The Oxford PV factory in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany, is the first volume manufacturing line for high efficiency, low cost perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells and the company plans annual manufacturing capacity of 100 MW with full production starting in 2022.
As part of the development, the company signed a strategic, exclusive deal with Swiss technology developer Meyer Burger for manufacturing equipment in 2019. However, since then Meyer Burger has changed direction and has also built a plant for solar cell production that opened last week.
This potential conflict was highlighted back in May 2020 when Meyer Burger cancelled deals with other module makers that used its equipment. The completion of the factory has led to Oxford PV unilaterally terminating the deal with a terse one line statement. Meyer Burger says it is exploring its legal options and points out it is the largest single shareholder of Oxford PV with a share of 19.76 percent.
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“Our UK and German teams, along with our supplier partners, have worked diligently to build out our Brandenburg factory,” said Frank Averdung, CEO of Oxford PV. “Since 2017 we have been operating a small volume line on site which has enabled us to optimise our product and verify that we meet our long-term stability and manufacturability targets. Now that the technology is ready for deployment and the factory build-out has been completed, we are excited about our journey ahead to realise our mission to make perovskite PV the mainstream solar technology.”
该任务不包括Meyer Burger。
“Meyer Burger Technology was informed on Friday, July 23, 2021 through a press release as well as a letter from Oxford Photovoltaics Limited that the company considers the companies’ collaboration agreement, in place since 2019, terminated for own strategic reasons,” said the company. “In view of the unexpected announcement by Oxford PV, Meyer Burger is considering legal options to enforce its rights.”
该协议涵盖了一个独家伙伴关系，共同制定基于Meyer Burger的异质结硅电池技术（HJT）的钙钛矿串联电池的批量生产技术，以及来自Meyer Burger的必要的新型佩洛斯库茨生产设备。
“Meyer Burger的评估是，佩罗夫斯基特串联技术只会在几年内达到所需的技术和工艺成熟，产品可靠性和成本结构。因此，牛津PV的宣布的任何后果对Meyer Burger的转型和Meyer Burger的沟通指导没有影响，“据说。
随着两家公司都有关键的知识产权，跌倒可能具有更广泛的影响。牛津PV拥有英国牛津大学研发组织的350多项专利，但仍处于启动阶段，而Meyer Burger开发出异质结硅电池技术（HJT）技术，并提高了其进入制造业的大量总和。使用这款法律战斗将减缓生产能力的发展。
Perovskite Tandem技术是Meyer Burger技术路线图的一个组成部分，Meyer Burger表示，它开发了一个全面的流程组合，技术和生产技术，为其自身潜在的串联太阳能电池和模块产生了潜在的批量生产。这包括佩罗夫斯基特串联太阳能电池和具有Meyer Burger专有的Smartwire互连技术的相应太阳能模块的基本制造工艺和机器。
“Meyer Burger thus holds a key to critical success factors such as product reliability and cost-efficient mass production,” it said.
This would put the two on a collision course over IP that would damage the fledgling attempts to build solar cell manufacturing capability in Europe.
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