Featured in Winter Edition – Gold standard – 12-2023

UP: Greener polysilicon

It is not only solar module manufacturers that need to reduce their carbon footprint. The same applies to their material suppliers, not least polysilicon producers, given the emissions associated with the earliest stages of solar manufacturing.

By

Mark Hutchins

05 Dec 2023

There would need to be radical change in how polysilicon is made to really reduce its environmental impact, according to JPM Silicon. | Photo: JPM Silicon

Though still the cleanest way to generate electricity, renewable energy’s own carbon emissions are coming under increasing scrutiny. Production of the many different metals, polymers, and other materials that end up in a PV module comes with a sizable environmental impact. As more module manufacturers commit to net zero along their entire supply chains, upstream …

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