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Meyer Burger’s Made-in-Germany plans

While Germany’s coal reserves represented a home-grown energy source in decades past, it’s history of PV module making has been patchy – with a long list of failed ventures a feature. However, as plans for a coal exit begin to take shape, one technology supplier is looking to build a new era of high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV production.

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Jonathan Gifford

15 Jun 2020

Image: Detlev Müller /Meyer Burger

Plans are emerging for the installation of a glistening surface of PV modules on the vast open spaces atop Germany’s former lignite mines, themselves a hangover from the many decades of coal mining on which the modern German industrial economy was built. The arrays would utilize existing grid infrastructure and create new revenue streams for …

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