表題で世界初の商用色素増感型太陽電池メーカーとしたのは、下の記事と同社のリリースを読んだからです。
・Factory to power itself-----icWales,Jan 28 2008
" NEXT generation solar manufacturer G24 Innovations (G24i) is on course for its factory at its Cardiff site to become energy self-sufficient.
The Cardiff-based company has been granted planning permission to erect a 2.5MW wind turbine at its site, in the Wentloog area of the city. "
イギリスのG24 Innovations (G24i)という聞きなれない名前の太陽電池メーカーが工場とその周辺に電力を供給するのに十分とされる2.5MWの大型風力発電機を設置運用するという計画を進めているというニュースです。
太陽電池工場を風力発電の電力で運営する。つまり再生可能エネルギーを使って、再生可能エネルギーを生産するということで大変興味深い計画にが進んでいるということです。報道以上の詳しい情報は見つからなかったので続報に期待したいと思います。
・G24 Innovations (G24i)
プレスリリース / G24 Innovations,11 October 2007
・G24 Innovations Announces a World-First in Solar Energy
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" Production of commercial grade Dye-Sensitised Thin Film commences
G24 Innovations Limited (G24i), headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, has announced the production of the World’s first commercial grade Dye Sensitised Thin Film. The technology is expected to make solar energy a viable renewable energy option for the first time for a range of new industries and geographies.
G24i’s Dye Sensitised Thin Film represents a technological breakthrough that combines innovative material science and nanotechnology to generate renewable power in a process much like nature’s photosynthesis. The solar cells and products are extremely lightweight, durable and are unique in that the thin film produces electricity in both low light and indoor conditions. Because G24i’s advanced solar cells work under all real-world conditions ? sunrise, sunset, rainy and cloudy days ? the cells provide more electricity to the user than most of the highly efficient traditional solar cells, which produce at their high efficiency levels for only a few hours on a sunny day.
Since moving in in September 2006, G24i has completed development of its 23 acre 187,000 sq ft fabrication plant and has designed, engineered and installed two production lines with a minimum capacity equal to 30 Megawatts (MW) of traditional solar cells. The company’s proprietary “roll-to-roll” manufacturing process completes all manufacturing steps in an automated, continuous process and can transform a lightweight roll of metal foil into a half-mile one hundred pound roll of G24i’s Dye Sensitised Thin Film in less than three hours. G24i’s Dye Sensitised Thin Film is ideal for integration or embedding into a wide array of products such as mobile electronic devices, tenting systems, and indoor and outdoor building materials. "
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色素増感型太陽電池は、世界中で開発にしのぎが削られている太陽電池です。
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