It's a pleasure to be here.

I'm aware that I'm speaking about a little unusual topic now, right?

It's about Fort Wilt Hikes.

But it's one of the things where I see actually a big interest from the Fort Wilt Hikes community,

especially if it goes into the mobility infrastructure.

And therefore it was a pleasure if Christoph asked me to speak here, so it's really a pleasure

to be allowed to speak here.

My name is Christoph Barbez.

I'm from the FAU, and I'm also a member of the Helmholtz Institute, Helmholtz Institute

Erlangen Nürnberg, which is part of the Governmental Research Center in Jüdig.

And the talk I'm presenting will be in the beginning the introduction in an activity

which we have started in the whole Helmholtz Society this year.

This is the project called SolarTap.

SolarTap is a project which was initiated by Jüdig, but also Berlin and Karlsruhe,

the three Helmholtz centers, to try to accelerate the transfer of technology, PV technologies,

into industry.

So this is where I'm going to start.

And before I go into the flexible Fort Wilt Hikes, let me just give you an overview what

is Fort Wilt Hikes today.

That is the shape and the face of Fort Wilt Hikes today.

This is how a typical gigawatt field looks like.

This is at the site in Turkey, the Kona site, which is the closest I'm aware of this size

of installations close to Middle Europe.

That plant specifically is now at a size of 1.3 gigawatt, and it's expanded to 2 gigawatt,

and it will be able to produce electricity in about a two, two and a half cents per kilowatt

hour.

And if you go to the cheapest sites, gigawatt fields worldwide, then they are already at

the cost of one cent, about one cent per kilowatt hour.

So at that cost, there's no way you could produce electricity cheaper than by Fort Wilt

Hike power generation.

Now the question is, Fort Wilt Hikes now is a so-called terawatt technology.

Since 2022, the total worldwide installed volume is more than one terawatt peak.

So terawatt peak means when the sun is up and shining.

If the sun is down, then it's zero.

So this terawatt peak refers to under one sun conditions.

There's a very interesting history.

I just make it short, but the history of Fort Wilt Hikes is now 70 years, 70 years of development

to bring it to a terawatt technology.

In the 80s, so 1954, was the paper from the Bell Labs on the first silicon solar cells.

It took about 20 years to develop to a megawatt technology.

And from then, it took about another 20, 25 years to the gigawatt.

And in 2022, it's now a terawatt technology.

So in total, 75 years of development.

It's not going to stop at a terawatt.

The expectations are that Fort Wilt Hikes has to further grow.

This has to do with the renewable energy scenarios.

And the expectation is in 2050, we will have about 80 to maybe 100 terawatt installed.

At that time, Fort Wilt Hikes will be one of the biggest industries worldwide.

And the expectations, estimations are that about 60 million people will be employed with

or via Fort Wilt Hikes.