The Swedish construction company Skanska is evaluating the use of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), manufactured by the Polish company Saule Technologies, in its construction projects. Read more about this evaluation by going to these Skanska websites (click here and here).
Potential commercialization of PSCs seem to have taken a substantial step forward in the current period, due likely to developments substantially advancing successes in PSCs’ use in generating electricity. Other PSCs developers, besides Saule, such as the British company Oxford PV, the Chinese company Microquanta Semiconductor, and the Japanese company Sekisui, are targeting near-term commercialization (in the next year of two) by experimenting with pilot production facilities and field testing of PSCs withstanding of adverse conditions.
My reading of current Internet information on PSC commercialization
is that it is very unlikely that PSCs will replace silicon solar cells anytime
soon, if ever, on roof tops and in solar panel farms. However, because PSCs have characteristics such
as being a flexible film and relatively easy and cheap to make, architects, designers,
and contractors are likely to find excellent, productive ways of using them in
and around homes, offices, and other buildings. Information at the Skanska websites (links
given above) providing how Skanska is planning to use PSCs gives credence to
this reading.
