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Although more and more smart textile products enter the consumer market, the question of a sustainable energy supply for electronic-based applications remains unanswered. Within the Raak Pro project Texenergie we explore possibilities for the integration of flexible solar energy harvesting and energy storage within textiles in collaboration with textile companies, the textile branch organization Modint and Avans university of applied sciences. The goal of the project is to develop partner specific demonstrators, based on the product portfolio of the participating companies. This can either be clothing, such as sport- or workwear, or technical textiles, such as tents, awnings or curtains. Based on the available surface, we divided the applications into small scale (clothing) as well as large scale (technical textiles). In the initial phase of the project we explored materials and technologies that are suited for textile integration. Within several student projects we combined the gathered knowledge to develop a proof of concept (PoC) for both scenarios that can be used as basis for the final demonstrators. Within this presentation we will give an overview of the development of several iterations of the small scale PoC, starting from a solar powered racing car with no textile materials included as a platform to test the components like batteries and wire shaped capacitors, towards a compact textile integrated system that can be used for the prototypes in the final phase of the project.