Energy, EU – Baltic States, Good for Business, Investments, Lithuania

The factory belonging to the project partner Via Solis in Vilnius, Lithuania will manufacture photovoltaic elements of varying shapes and colors that architects can use to realize their visions, solarserver.com reports.

In addition to producing rectangular modules, the production line can create square, triangular and round modules in any RAL color. The PV factory has a production capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) and is powered using 100 percent renewable energy. A total of EUR 37 million was invested in building the PV cell and module production line.

"Architects repeatedly find that their designs for solar facade elements are either technically impossible or too expensive to implement. Our production line is set to change this and will even allow unusual solar facades to be constructed," says Rimvydas Karoblis, CEO of Via Solis, a Lithuanian solar systems manufacturer with subsidiaries across Europe.

"We decided to use highly innovative production methods: Thermo sealing with butyl, for example, ensures that our crystalline modules last for a long time," he said.