Dutch PV sustainability specialist with hands-on H2020 experience in perovskite, DSSC, and transparent tandem solar technologies.
SMARTGREENSCANS is a Dutch specialist consultancy — operating under the name of its principal, Mariska de Wild-Scholten — that provides environmental performance and sustainability analysis for advanced photovoltaic technologies. The firm contributes to research consortia as a focused expert in assessing the environmental footprint of next-generation solar cells, including perovskite and dye-sensitized technologies. In both H2020 projects, they were embedded in large RIA consortia tackling cost-efficient and building-integrated PV, suggesting their role is to deliver lifecycle or environmental benchmarking alongside device and manufacturing partners. The dual sector classification (Energy and Environment) in the CHEOPS project reflects this positioning — they are the environmental lens in a technically-focused solar consortium.
Both CHEOPS (2016–2019) and IMPRESSIVE (2019–2022) involved perovskite photovoltaics, and CHEOPS carried an Environment sector tag indicating environmental scope beyond energy conversion.
CHEOPS focused on large-area perovskite thin-film modules; IMPRESSIVE extended this to transparent DSSC-perovskite tandems, covering two distinct thin-film technology families.
IMPRESSIVE (2019–2022) explicitly targeted window-integrated transparent solar cells (DSSC + PSC tandem), signalling a move toward architectural PV applications.
Participation in two consecutive RIA projects with energy and environment sector overlap suggests a recurring role in providing sustainability or lifecycle metrics to device-focused consortia.
In their first project (CHEOPS, 2016–2019), the focus was on production-scale perovskite modules — large-area fabrication, thin-film manufacturing, and the path to commercial high-efficiency cells. By the second project (IMPRESSIVE, 2019–2022), the emphasis shifted decisively toward transparency, window integration, and multi-junction tandem architectures combining dye-sensitized and perovskite cells. This is a meaningful pivot: from optimising how to make perovskite cells bigger and cheaper, toward making them transparent and architecturally functional. The trajectory suggests the organisation is following the frontier of applied PV research rather than staying in a fixed niche.
SMARTGREENSCANS is moving toward building-integrated and transparent photovoltaics, making them a relevant partner for consortia working on BIPV, smart windows, or architectural solar applications in the post-2022 period.
SMARTGREENSCANS has never coordinated an H2020 project — they enter consortia as a specialist contributor, bringing a defined expertise that complements device physicists, manufacturers, and scale-up partners. With 17 unique partners across only two projects, they operate in medium-to-large consortia (8–10 partners each) rather than tight bilateral collaborations. This profile is typical of a niche expert firm that is sought out by consortia needing a specific capability — in this case, environmental or sustainability analysis — rather than a broad-purpose partner.
The organisation has collaborated with 17 unique partners across 6 countries in just two projects, indicating active involvement in sizeable international consortia. The Netherlands base and European project scope suggest a network concentrated in Western and Northern Europe, typical of advanced PV research clusters.
SMARTGREENSCANS occupies a rare position as a private, individual-scale specialist embedded in large academic and industrial PV consortia — they are not a university group, not a large company, and not a device manufacturer, which makes them fast-moving and highly focused. Their dual presence in both Energy and Environment sectors signals an ability to frame solar technology performance through a sustainability lens that pure engineering partners typically cannot provide. For a consortium that needs to demonstrate environmental credibility alongside technical progress, this organisation fills a gap that most PV partners leave empty.
