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United States : SEMI announces signing of MoU with USPVMC
Publish Date : 31-Jan-2013
SEMI, a leading global industry association and standards development organization (SDO), has inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC).
Under this MoU, SEMI will collaborate with PVMC in areas of standards and roadmap activities for solar thin film industry.
SEMI supports manufacturing supply chain for micro and nano-electronics industries, such as photovoltaics (PV), with collaborative activities including PV manufacturing standards via SEMI International Standards program, in addition to technology roadmap development with International Technology Roadmap for PV (ITRPV).
PVMC is a national industry-led consortium based in New York State at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering’s (CNSE) Albany NanoTech Complex. It is an affiliation between SEMATECH and CNSE. PVMC was founded under U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot scheme, which aims to decrease the cost of photovoltaic solar energy systems by nearly 75% over the next decade.
Bettina Weiss, VP of business development at SEMI, said, “By joining forces with PVMC and by leveraging lessons learned from SEMI’s ITRPV roadmap and PV standards activity, we intend to create synergies along the PV thin film manufacturing supply chain, enabling cost reductions and efficiency gains that will benefit the entire global solar industry.”
Dr. Pradeep Haldar, Chief Operating and Technical Officer at PVMC and VP of Clean Energy Programs at CNSE, said, “In accordance with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s innovative green energy initiatives, including the NY-SUN and Energy Superhighway programs, PVMC is delighted to partner with SEMI to drive the development of standards and roadmaps that will guide next-generation PV research and advanced manufacturing. This collaboration further highlights the ability of public-private partnerships to enable leading-edge technologies while supporting the critical needs of industry.”
Joe Hudgins, SVP of business development and strategic alliances at PVMC, said, “A critical objective of PVMC is to build on earlier PV roadmap initiatives and support cooperative standards activities for thin film PV manufacturing and applications. This partnership demonstrates PVMC’s and SEMI’s strong commitment to coalesce industry direction by tackling top industry concerns on the technical barriers for advanced solar PV-related manufacturing processes and BOS (balance of systems) applications and product certifications.”
