Newsletter N8

March 2018

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BSQ obtains ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certification

15 September 2017

Within a 19-month period, BSQ’s has conditioned its management operations to comply with the ISO 9001:2015 quality assurance standard, and the ISO 14001:2015 environmental standard.

Leading the process were BSQ’s Operations Manager, Goulven Quéméré with support from Javier Bernabé, a quality management consultant.

The final certification process and audits were carried out by the accredited certification body DNV-GL (Det Norske Veritas-Germanischer Lloyd), established in 1864 in Norway. DNV-GL is an accredited certifier in 80 countries globally and known to have issued management system certificates to over 70,000 companies across all industry sectors. Some of the industries supported include solar electricity, solar and storage. DNV-GL portfolio includes extensive expertise and a wide suite of independent service offerings to clients, especially in these sectors.

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BSQ’s sun tracking certified IEC 62817

21 November, 2017

BSQ Solar has completed the IEC62817 certification process for its sun tracking technology.

IEC 62817 is a design qualification standard applicable to solar trackers for photovoltaic systems. The standard defines test procedures for both the key components and the complete tracker system. In some cases, test procedures describe methods to measure and/or calculate parameters reported to a defined tracker specification sheet. In other cases, the test procedures result in a pass/fail criterion.

This standard assures the user that the parameters reported in the specification sheet were measured by consistent and accepted industry procedures. The tests with pass/fail criteria are engineered for separating tracker designs that are likely to have early failures, from those designs that are sound and suitable for use as specified by the manufacturer.

CERE, a Spanish independent certification entity, accredited by ENAC in Spain and in more than 40 countries worldwide conducted the certification process. The CERE team has first-hand experience having participated in the testing and certification of more than 1500MW of PV installations, 400MW of wind installations, 200MW of testing, certification projects for PV inverters, and 200MW of wind turbine projects over the last ten years.

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ASES HCPV system close to product launch

February, 2018

BSQ participated in project ASES (Smart high efficient Alternative Solar Energy Source) in collaboration with two other industrial European companies, Eryma from France and Elceram from Czech Republic and with the support of two research centers, the University of West Bohemia and Tecnalia from Spain.

The main objective of the project was the development of a portable, plug & play and highly efficient, solar electric generator for standalone applications. The system is based on an HCPV generator with total power in two

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variants, 180W or 360W. It is also equipped with a battery pack and a charge controller to ensure optimal power supply, as well as a wireless communications module with its associated man-machine interface for handheld devices, to enable the remote control and monitoring of the system.

Research carried out by Eryma’s marketing department, foresees a market opportunity for medium sized stand-alone generators (100Wh/day to 1kWh/day). For example, and according to public data from independent market research consultancies, every year more than 20 million surveillance cameras are sold in the world and few hundred thousand in France only for transport, military, industry, or security applications. It is the fastest growing market in the field of electronic security, in which France alone has a market value of over 1 billion euros. It is considered that about 10% of these applications can improve customer’s satisfaction and functionality by using a renewable energy stand-alone generator.

An essential part of this system has been the design by BSQ of a low cost, portable HCPV sun tracker to host a modified version of its standard HCPV modules. This has entailed the design of an integrated sun tracking mechanical drive and controller, based on compact gearings, electronic sensors and electric motors, all controlled by custom made electronics. The complete system can be quickly assembled and compactly packed to enable portability.

Several prototype samples of this new design have been manufactured and tested in different locations and supervised by the different partners in the project, namely: Pilsen and Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, Lanester in France, and Madrid and Cádiz in Spain.

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BSQ Solar proud sponsor of CPV-14

March, 2018

BSQ Solar shall sponsor the 14th International Conference on Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems (www.cpv-14.org) to be held from April 16th to 18th, 2018, in the Spanish town of Puertollano. Puertollano, a former mining town that today has transitioned into a local hub of greentech industries and research centers, is located in the region of Castilla La Mancha, the main stage of the adventures of the world famous Don Quixote, as clearly suggested by this year’s conference logo.

Puertollano hosts the headquarters of ISFOC, the Institute for Concentration Photovoltaic Systems, the only research institute in the world specifically created for the research of CPV systems. Since its foundation in 2008, ISFOC has helped dozens of CPV manufacturers to bring their products to the market, by supporting the testing of their technologies not only at a laboratory level but also validating them in the

field at a large-scale plant level. In this regard, ISFOC hosts 3MW of demo installations of several different technologies and manufacturers in its facilities in Puertollano, and has also continued pursuing this objective and commitment in cooperation with other relevant partners overseas for example, in MASDAR, Abu Dhabi where it has also set CPV large scale demonstration installations alike.

ISFOC is, since its inception, a public company, wholly owned by the autonomous government of Castilla La Mancha. BSQ also partly owned by the same public institution, maintains a very close relationship with ISFOC, resulting in frequent collaborative R&D and coordinated efforts for the promotion of CPV technology.

The CPV-X conference has been running since 2002, when it started in New Orleans. It is owned by the CPV Consortium, which is the global industry organization supporting the development and long-term success of the CPV industry. This will be the third time that the CPV-X conference is held in Spain, thus, reflecting the outstanding role that this country has played in the development of modern CPV technology and in its industrial take-off.

The venue for CPV-14, the so-called “La Central” of Puertollano, an old thermoelectric plant built in 1917 and recently reconverted for use as a conference center.

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BSQ collaborates helps European Commission efforts to foster cleantech investment

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London, 23 November, 2017

The 2030 European framework for climate and energy policies sets ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Central to achieving these goals is the deployment of innovative low-carbon energy technologies. A multitude of such technologies has been developed under research and innovation programs in the EU member states. Financing is a key element for bringing such innovations to the market. Yet, many new technologies cannot find investors for numerous reasons.

Against this background, the European Commission has commissioned the project “Building the Investment Community for Innovative Energy Technology Projects”, which aims to assess and address the current barriers to investment in innovative clean energy technologies and provide best practices and tools to overcome those obstacles.

The project is being implemented by a consortium of consultancy firms, with a record of accomplishment in the field of effective energy, environment and climate change policies and strategies. This consortium is formed by London Economics and Climatekos from UK, Adelphi and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management from Germany, and Trinomics from the Netherlands.

Ultimately, the project strives to understand and address current barriers to investment in innovative clean energy technologies. Case studies are being developed for a set of companies that have successfully obtained funding for their innovative energy technologies. The case studies will look at aspects such as (i) funding history of the company, (ii) matching mechanisms applied, (iii)

success factors & obstacles and (iv) role of the government.

Results will be used to develop a manual for other innovators , assisting them in reaching out to potential investors. The project will further contribute to increasing clean energy investments by developing a portfolio of clean energy technology projects in Europe and organizing match-making events. Based on these insights, policy measures will be identified at EU level to overcome barriers and bottlenecks.

BSQ was selected as one of the companies to help this research and has been providing information based on their experience in the field of funding of novel solar ventures, within the specific framework of their business plan.

Additionally, BSQ is also participating in the matchmaking events that the consortium organizes, with the first one having been held in London on Nov. 23rd, 2017 at the headquarters of international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, in the very heart of London, neighbor to London bridge and the City Hall. Norton Rose Fulbright is interested in collaborating with participating companies in the legal aspects of their projects.

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BSQ appoints two new staff members

BSQ appoints two new staff members, Dr. Tania Rodríguez and Dr. Sebastian Caparrós.

Dr. Sebastian Caparrós joins BSQ as a Senior Consultant for CPV Technology. Sebastian has worked for more than 11 years in CPV technology.

He previously worked as a project manager of CPV projects at Abengoa from 2007 to 2016. There he led the CPV technology development efforts. He is vastly experienced in several key areas of the technology such as optics, having spent 2 years in the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester and III-V multijunction solar cell technology, also accredited by 2 years working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory of the US Department of Energy. He also has experience in the industrialization of processes for high volume production and working with best in class OEM suppliers.

He has led the participation of 5 publicly funded R&D projects and holds 13 patents in several solar technologies. He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Huelva.

Dr. Tania Rodríguez joins BSQ as a Business Development Manager. She previously worked as a Control Engineer at the Technology Development department at Siemens Gamesa. She has also worked for over 6 years as a researcher at the Systems Engineering and Automatic Control Department of the University of Valladolid. Her research focused on process optimization to achieve optimal operation of industrial chemical processes based on economical and environmental criteria. She has participated in 7 publicly financed research projects by both European and Spanish.

She has published over 20 technical papers and held research fellowship at the Laboratory of Automatic Control at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology at TU Graz (Austria)

She holds a master degree in Process and Systems Engineering from the University of Valladolid, and another one in Instrumentation and process control from the Repsol Technology Centre in Madrid. She graduated as a Chemical Engineer at the University of Valladolid and holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the same university.