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Presenting the awards, Chris Meadows of IQE commented, “IQE is honored and proud to be associated with the graduate prizes awarded to students at the Electronic and Engineering Department at the University of Bath.”
“The department has a strong presence in the field of optoelectronics, which is emerging as an important technology for the next generation of consumer and communications devices. The IQE prizes recognize the commitment, knowledge and enthusiasm of entrants that we believe will lead to today’s graduates becoming future world- class engineers in this exciting technology,” he concluded.
In October 2009, IQE acquired NanoGaN which is a spin-out company of the University of Bath. NanoGaN specialises in gallium nitride materials for advanced optoelectronic products and possesses important intellectual property and multiple patents.
IQE has close connections with a number of academic partners globally.
Putting your product where your mouth is
First Solar inaugurates solar power plant at its manufacturing facility completing the PV value chain
First Solar, the largest producer of PV-modules worldwide, is now also relying on solar energy at its production site in Frankfurt (Oder). The company has started operation of a 1.3 megawatt solar-power-plant on its facility’s roof. For the first time, First Solar now represents the entire value chain of photovoltaics in Frankfurt (Oder), from manufacturing of the solar modules and power generation to recycling.
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With its PV-thin-film technology, First Solar offers the possibility to generate clean, low cost solar power to establish an alternative to conventional energy sources. The company focuses in particular on the sustainable management of the entire life cycle of its solar modules and, as the first manufacturer to do so, introduced a pre-financed collection and recycling program. The solar power plant on the roof of the production site in Frankfurt (Oder) is a logical step in implementing this philosophy. With the new solar-power-plant, First Solar in the future will also generate its own environmentally friendly power in addition to manufacturing solar modules and recycling.
“As one of the most important future industries, the solar industry is of tremendous significance for Brandenburg,” says Ralf Christoffers, Minister for Economic Affairs of Brandenburg. “For years now, we have been successfully promoting the sustainable support of renewable energy and are therefore pleased that First Solar is taking the lead in an exemplary manner and is now using solar energy to manufacture its modules.”
The new solar power plant has a capacity of 1.3 megawatts and will generate more than 1000 megawatt hours of clean energy every year. Mathematically, this corresponds to the needs of 366 three-person households and an annual CO2 savings of around 875 tons. More than 17, 070 FS-275 thin-film modules were installed for the 12,400-square-meter facility. More than 120 inverters transform the power into alternating current, which is then fed into the local network from the internal First Solar network.
“Our corporate philosophy is to generate environmentally friendly energy at competitive prices,” said Burghard von Westerholt, plant manager and Managing Director of First Solar Manufacturing GmbH. “With the solar power plant, we cover the entire solar cycle at our German plant and offer a sustainable alternative to conventional energy sources from manufacturing and power generation to recycling.”
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