Roadmap to Commercialization

The START Roadmaps provide a clear pathway for advancing thermoelectric technologies towards market deployment by 2030.

Instead of a single roadmap, the approach is structured into six interconnected roadmaps, each covering a key step of the value chain—from raw materials to applications and end-of-life, including broader external factors.

Raw Materials Roadmap

Processing

Production

Application

End-of-life

PESTEL

Roadmapping conclusions

The START roadmap outlines the development of a fully integrated START European-based value chain for tetrahedrite-based TEGs between 2026 and 2030. The objective is to transition from TRL-4 to TRL-9 in this timeframe, achieving not only product/service commercialization, but the creation of a vertically integrated, circular, digitally enabled thermoelectric ecosystem, while establishing the following principles:

• Secure EU-based raw material sourcing for materials security;
• Automated and digitalised industrial-scale processing and production;
• Industry 4.0–compliant manufacturing;
• Competitive pricing and viable business models;
• Circularity and Structural advantage;
• Regulatory and policy alignment within EU frameworks.