SOLARISE
Solar Adoption Rise in the 2 Seas
Priority Axis
Low Carbon TechnologiesSpecific objective
Low Carbon Technologies
Lead partner
University of Picardie Jules VerneContact
Date de début
01/01/2018Date de fin
31/03/2022Project budget
4 302 023 €ERDF amount
2 581 214 €ERDF rate
60%À propos
Common challenge
Solar electricity generation has increased rapidly in recent years; in 2014 it accounted for 11% of EU renewable electricity (Eurostat), becoming the third largest contributor to electricity production from renewable energy (RE) sources in Europe. Solar is the most abundant of all RE sources. Yet it is perceived as prohibitively expensive (taking years before investment is returned) and problematic, as the electricity grid infrastructure struggles to cope with the variability of solar energy. There is little deployment of solutions like battery storage with solar photovoltaic that would offer grid balancing to enable solar to scale up.
Accordingly solar remains a small part of Europe’s energy system and does not achieve its potential in the 2 Seas Region. With consumer energy prices rising, there is a common challenge to reduce costs and improve applicability and efficiency of the technology, resulting in accelerated uptake and wider deployment of solar energy across the 2 Seas region.
Overall objective
Main outputs
Cross border approach
Main Achievements
The SOLARISE Project is co-funded by the European Programme Interreg 2 Seas. Its goal is to accelerate the adoption of solar energy in the 2 seas territories through innovative pilot solar installations.
This project brings together 12 partners and 14 observers with different but complementary profiles in France, UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. The University of Amiens is coordinating this project which started in March 2018 with a budget of about 4.5 million euros over 43 months.
Solar energy has a great potential of applications that are explored by SOLARISE:
1. Collective or individual roofs (for instance 3 buildings at the UPJV with 3500 m2 rooftop);
2. Facades of public or private buildings;
3. Industries often for self-consumption;
4. Solar farms.
Feasibility studies have already been done for rooftop installations on different type of buildings, on a heritage mill and for innovative living-labs including hybrid solar panels, storage and internet of things for monitoring.
These facilities will be implemented and the installations will be used as showcases for demonstration, training and R&D purposes.
The contextual framework of solar energy has also been analysed in the 4 countries from the point of view of legislation, market, technology and best practices.
The SOLARISE project organises several events that are open to public in order to share the solar potential in the 2 Seas Region.