• This project is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). 'Photovoltaic Materials for the 21 st Century' and is one of a series of advanced energy research projects supported by the EPSRC's Sustainable Power Generation and Supply Initiative (Supergen)
• The £4.5 million project starts in April 2004 and will take 4 years to complete.
• The team comprises of 6 British Universities and 7 companies to start the UK 's largest ever single research programme on solar cells.
• The team sees the 21 st Century as the one in which renewable energy must grow and become viable. To do this it must become cost effective.

Members of the PV21 team at the 6 month technical meeting in Bath, April 2006

Our Key Objective

'Photovoltaic Materials for the 21 st Century' will make it possible for manufacturers to slash the cost of solar energy by a half.

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