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Does SPI energy make solar wafers?

Original story below: SPI Energy, the company that took over the former Sunergy solar panel manufacturing plant in Sacramento, California, and has been making Solar4America-branded solar panels out of the facility since March of this year, announced it has signed a letter of intent to secure solar wafer manufacturing equipment.

Will there be a silicon wafer facility in the United States?

This will be the first silicon wafer facility set up in the United States in nearly a decade. Wafers are the precursor to solar cells, which are then assembled into final solar panels. The United States does not yet have any cell manufacturing within its borders.

Are silicon wafers the key component of solar panels?

Silicon wafers are the key component of solar panels. Fraunhofer ISE is finding ways of making them faster and cheaper.

Does qcells have a solar supply chain?

In January of this year, Qcells announced what is considered the largest investment in U.S. solar history, with plans to invest more than $2.5 billion to build a complete solar supply chain in the United States. This makesQcells the first company to establish a fully-integrated silicon-based solar supply chain in the U.S.

Where is REC Silicon granular polysilicon made?

The American-made, low-carbon polysilicon produced at REC Silicon’s Moses Lake facility in Washington will be used for ingot/wafer manufacturing at the new Qcells manufacturing facility in Georgia, which will begin operation late next year. The 10-year take-or-pay supply agreement is for high purity fluidized bed reactor (FBR) granular polysilicon.

How many silicon wafers can a Fraunhofer ISE production line produce?

Working with a consortium of companies and research organizations, Fraunhofer ISE has devised an innovative production line that can produce 15,000 to 20,000 silicon wafers per hour — approximately double the output of most production lines in use today.