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Energy

Hong Kong Gets DuPont Solar Modules

by Michael McCoy
August 16, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 33

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A view of the solar modules recently installed in Hong Kong.
Credit: DuPont
A view of the solar modules recently installed in Hong Kong.

DuPont supplied the thin-film photovoltaic modules that were recently installed at Hongkong Electric’s Lamma Power Station. Manufactured by DuPont Apollo, a China-based DuPont subsidiary, the modules generate electricity using amorphous silicon, rather than traditional polycrystalline silicon. Because the modules consume less than 1% of the silicon that traditional solar cells do, DuPont says, energy payback times are short.

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