This page contains a Flash digital edition of a book.
WORLDNEWS
Monosilane facility
At an event the company is calling “Solar across multiple solar technologies,” said
Day,” Dow Corning announced the start Eric Peeters, global executive director,
of construction in Michigan of a plant that Dow Corning Solar Solutions.
will manufacture monosilane gas. A key
material used to manufacture thin-film The solar installation at Dow Corning
solar cells. Dow Corning will also unveil a headquarters features 136 solar panels
solar panel installation and Solar and will produce approximately 30
Discovery Centre at its headquarters. kilowatt-hours of power, the amount of
electricity consumed by approximately
“Autumn may be approaching, but the seven to 10 homes in a year.
sun is shining brightly at Dow Corning. Dow Corning’s vice president and chief
And it is waiting for us,” said Stephanie A. Discovery Centre administrative officer. “We would like to
Burns, Dow Corning’s chairman, In addition to providing clean, alternative invite community and student groups to
president and CEO. “There is still much energy to the electrical grid, the solar contact us if they’re interested in seeing
work to do to make solar energy a installation serves as a testing ground for the solar panels and education centre.”
sustainable energy option. These Dow Corning’s silicone encapsulation
investments represent our continued solution. Half of the solar panels in the The solar panel installation at Dow
commitment to both innovating and using installation are encapsulated with Dow Corning’s headquarters is the third the
alternative energy technologies.” Corning’s silicone encapsulation to company has been involved with in
compare and test with the other half Michigan. Others are at the Michigan site
The Dow Corning Monosilanes facility will encapsulated using standard technology. of Dow Corning’s joint venture the
manufacture high purity monosilane, a Hemlock Semiconductor Group, and at
key specialty gas used to manufacture The Solar Discovery Centre offers the Dow Diamond in Midland. In total, Dow
thin-film solar cells and liquid crystal company an opportunity to educate Corning and Hemlock Semiconductor are
displays. The facility represents an students and community leaders about generating approximately 90 kilowatt-
investment of hundreds of millions of how solar technology works as well as hours of solar power in the Great Lakes
13
dollars and will initially employ about the company’s critical role in solar Bay Region.
approximately 30 people. technology.
www
Dow Corning’s Wiesbaden, Germany site
.solar
“This investment to become a leading “It is important for everyone in our is partially powered by solar panels. The
supplier of monosilane for thin film solar community, especially students, to installation in Wiesbaden generates nearly
-pv-management.com
technology will expand our feedstock understand both how solar technology 100 kilowatt-hours of power, the amount
offering and will further reinforce Dow works and the opportunity it represents of energy needed to satisfy the annual
Corning’s position as a material supplier for the world,” said Marie N. Eckstein, electricity needs of 35 households.
Flexible growth
Issue V 2009
The global flexible and thin-film photovoltaic (PV) market, term. Japan, China and other countries in Asia will catch up
despite caution in the overall PV industry, is expected to strongly in the medium term. In the long term, sales will
experience a CAGR of over 35% to 2019, surpassing 32GW probably increase in nations such as Africa as organic flexible
according to a major new study by IntertechPira. The Future of products start to become fully viable. In Europe, Germany will
Flexible and Thin-Film Photovoltaics provides detailed ten-year remain a strong market.
volume and value forecasts of the flexible and thin-film PV
market by cell type, end-use application and geographic region. This new study provides volume and value forecasts to 2019 for
It also addresses thin-film production capacity, competition, as emerging flexible and thin-film PV technologies, such as
well as financial incentives, such as subsidies, feed-in tariffs and amorphous silicon, CdTe (cadmium telluride), and CIS/CIGS
purchase power agreements and their effect on the (copper indium diselenide/copper indium gallium diselenide). It
development of this sector of the PV industry. also provides forecasts for thin-film PV in end-use applications,
such as ground- and roof-mounted, building-integrated (BIPV),
The study predicts that although organic-based PV, with its consumer electronics, and military.
small base, will likely grow the fastest of the candidate
technologies, amorphous silicon is forecast to remain the A key focus of the study is the market outlook for raw materials
technology of choice, increasing from approximately 50 to 70% and chemicals used in flexible and thin-film PV production.
of the market over the next 10 years. According to the study, a range of chemicals manufacturers of
various types of materials should be interested in what is going
According to the study, the strongest growth for thin film and on in thin film PV, which increasingly represents a volume
flexible PV will be in Europe and the US in the short to medium opportunity for the materials they have to offer.
Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44
Produced with Yudu - www.yudu.com