Brite Solar is the 3rd winner of the 8th Innovation and Technology competition of NBG

Grapes ripening in the greenhouse

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Brite Solar became the 3rd winner of the 8th Innovation and Technology competition that has been held by the National Bank of Greece as part of the Business Seeds program.

The competition aims at reinforcing and supporting creativity, especially amongst young people, as well as at fostering a culture of innovation. It is a new competition to elicit and reward original ideas based on new technologies and to promote innovation in Greece.

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Related material: the project, press coverage and the collaborators behind the technology.

Where the electricity goes

Power generated on a greenhouse roof is usually consumed on site. Climate control, irrigation pumps, ventilation and supplementary lighting all draw during the same daylight hours when the glazing produces, so much of the output never touches the grid.

That self-consumption is what makes the economics work. Electricity used where it is generated is worth the retail price rather than the feed-in tariff, and it avoids both transmission losses and the connection queues that hold up ground-mounted projects.