VITSOLC spun out from ICFO with the mission to produce transparent photovoltaic modules for the electric vehicle, agrivoltaics or other infrastructures that simultaneously require electrical energy and transparency. VITSOLC aims at producing transparent photovoltaic mini-modules that can be laminated into large photovoltaic transparent window panels.

VITSOLC’s photovoltaic window panel prototype will be developed using the patented transparent photovoltaic technology developed in the Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics (ONPV) group led by UPC Prof at ICFO Dr Jordi Martorell. At the moment, such transparent photovoltaic technology, which was developed for over 10 years, is the only one where visible light transmission can be clearly decoupled from energy conversion with the capability to fully adapt to many transparent elements where sunlight is incident at angles largely differing from the angular range of a standard vision through that element.

To bring to market such transparent photovoltaic technology in the shortest time possible, the VITSOLC team brought together technical and business expertise. Oscar Aceves, who is currently serving as VITSOLC’s CEO and CTO, has an extensive background in providing commercial value to renewable energy-based solutions. In the past, Oscar co-founded a total of four companies, three of which are in the commercial exploitation of photovoltaic technologies: Trama Tecnoambiental, Sol3G, and TFM. TFM pioneered the integration of a silicon-based photovoltaic technology into buildings in Spain.

Aspects that determine the transparent photovoltaic technology performance were addressed by ICFO, in collaboration with many different industrial partners and research centers across Europe, implementing several competitive funding research and development projects funded by ACCIO (projects CySOLC, NanoPro and INTREPID), MINECO (projects TRANSOLC and ECOBUILDING) and the European Commission (SOLPROCEL).

VITSOLC incubated in the ICFO Launchpad with the support of the Barcelona and Castelldefels City Councils, the ”la Caixa” Foundation, and the PECT-InnoDelta project for Specialization and Territorial Competitivity, co-financed by the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) allocated to the Programa operatiu FEDER de Catalunya 2014-2020.