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Keeping PV components green

Sustainable PV: Just as module efficiency does not depend only on cell architecture developments, so too does sustainable solar come right down to the components. This is the case from solar glass through to backsheets. The use of fluoropolymers in backsheets supplied to the industry has some worried about toxicity issues when modules come to their end of life.

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Jonathan Gifford

21 Jan 2015

Last November the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) released its “solar scorecard,” providing a ranking of 37 solar module manufacturers with regards to their actions and words when it comes to sustainability. The criteria the SVTC ranked the module producers on included emissions, water and energy efficiency, the use of conflict materials, and workers’ safety …

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