Solar fab2farm model offers blueprint for affordable clean energy
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To help meet the world's critical need for renewable energy, Applied Materials has developed an innovative fab2farm business model for solar deployment designed to bring cost-effective, utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation capability to local areas and stimulate economic development.
The fab2farm model represents a complete regional ecosystem, bringing together communities, utilities and solar panel manufacturers to drive down the cost of solar electricity, create green jobs, and spur local economic activity - while delivering a supply of clean energy for decades to come.
Key to the fab2farm model is a locally-sited solar panel factory built by a solar module manufacturer using Applied's revolutionary SunFab thin film production line. The SunFab line produces the world's largest and most powerful solar PV panels, which are optimally suited for utility-owned solar farms.
Since electricity generation is sited for distribution near load centers, a solar farm can be quickly deployed without the need for extensive, costly transmission lines. This utility-scale solar farm would not only generate cost-competitive, clean, renewable energy for the community, it can help the utility avoid up to 170,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.
"Applied's fab2farm model unlocks a low-risk, cost-effective opportunity to integrate solar PV electricity into a community's energy portfolio," said John Antone, vice president, Energy and Environmental Solutions, Applied Materials.
The fab2farm model represents a complete regional ecosystem, bringing together communities, utilities and solar panel manufacturers to drive down the cost of solar electricity, create green jobs, and spur local economic activity - while delivering a supply of clean energy for decades to come.
Key to the fab2farm model is a locally-sited solar panel factory built by a solar module manufacturer using Applied's revolutionary SunFab thin film production line. The SunFab line produces the world's largest and most powerful solar PV panels, which are optimally suited for utility-owned solar farms.
Since electricity generation is sited for distribution near load centers, a solar farm can be quickly deployed without the need for extensive, costly transmission lines. This utility-scale solar farm would not only generate cost-competitive, clean, renewable energy for the community, it can help the utility avoid up to 170,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.
"Applied's fab2farm model unlocks a low-risk, cost-effective opportunity to integrate solar PV electricity into a community's energy portfolio," said John Antone, vice president, Energy and Environmental Solutions, Applied Materials.
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