The Russian corporation of nanotechnologies will participate in co-financing the Stavropol plant producing solar power installations.
According to the Ministry of Economic Development of the region, the project was developed by scientists from the North Caucasian State Technical University in Stavropol and the St. Petersburg Physico-Technical Institute of A. F. Ioffe.
Total investment in the project, including organization of solar power installations and work on new-generation concentrator photoelectric modules, is estimated to amount to 126.2 million euros. Realization of the project will be carried out in three stages. Energy production is
estimated at 75 Megawatts annually and the plant will be launched at the end of 2015. One of the new production areas is planned to be established on the territory of the constructed industrial park of Stavropol. In 2010 the development of tested production technology
will start in St. Petersburg and Stavropol. The first industrial batches are planned to be delivered to Stavropol by the end of 2011, mass production will be launched in 2013. After that the plant will create up to 500 new jobs in Stavropol.
The new production technology of solar power installations has several advantages over silicon technology. The traditional photoelectric installations work on direct, non-concentrated sun emissions, requiring production of large quantities of semiconductor material. In
order to produce 1 Megawatt of solar energy requires approximately 10 thousand sq m of sun elements. Using the new technology (concentration of sun energy on semiconductor chips using cheap lenses) allows reduction of expensive semiconductor materials. Thus, the prime-cost
of the product falls while the efficiency of such installations rises from 14% to 35-40%. Moreover, the installations are planned to be mounted with a sun-tracking system, increasing the amount of energy produced by 1.3-1.4 times. The developers are confident that
realization of the project will allow the establishment of a full cycle of solar power installation production, including not only assembly but also the creation of nano-heterostructures, chip
production, module assembly and sun-tracking system production.
Stavropol Territory presented this investment project twice at the annual international investment forum in Sochi. In 2009 the project was presented for consideration to Rosnanotekh, where it was approved by experts. The State corporation made a positive decision concerning its participation in the co-financing of the project. “We managed to
promote a serious project, involving implementation of the advanced technologies in the sphere of renewable energy sources”, the deputy chairman of the territorial government Georgiy Yefremov said.
“The plant’s products will also be aimed at foreign markets – the countries of the Middle East, South-East Asia and European countries whose legislature stimulates implementation of advanced technologies. The efficiency of the new technologies has no analogues in the world,
allowing us to take a significant position on the world space in this sphere”, the Minister of Economic Development of Stavropol Territory Yuri Yagudayev said, noting that this investment project will become one of the most capital-intensive projects not only for Stavropol Territory but also for the state corporation.
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