According to foreign media reports, EuroCZ Factory, a project supported by the European Union to enhance the manufacturing capacity of silicon ingots and wafers in Europe, was launched recently. A spokesman for the
project said its ultimate goal was to support at least three domestic silicon wafer manufacturing plants in Europe by 2031 and to achieve more than 5G W/year silicon ingot manufacturing capacity in Europe by the mid-2030s.
In the next 42 months, Solar Power Europe, the European photovoltaic industry association, said that the project consortium would develop key technologies and processes to support the development of the European industry around the manufacture of Czochralski silicon ingots and wafers. The project will focus on optimizing the silicon crystal growth and silicon wafer processing process, promoting the application of digital tools in the manufacturing process, and using full-scale equipment to carry out pilot demonstration to verify the feasibility of related technologies.
"Rebuilding the European photovoltaic manufacturing industry" has been a long-term development goal pursued by European industry and policy makers. However, in fact, up to now, Europe has not been able to achieve large-scale development in a real sense.
At the end of June, at a special forum on "Made in Europe", participants believed that it was difficult for European photovoltaic manufacturing industry to achieve a fundamental breakthrough in the short term, but it could still maintain a certain competitiveness in some subdivisions by virtue of the advantages of technological innovation. Among them, photovoltaic manufacturing equipment, high-end battery manufacturing technology and advanced photovoltaic cell technology are considered to be the most competitive potential direction in Europe.
From 2023 to 2024, the European photovoltaic manufacturing industry experienced a "big defeat". Under the dual pressure of China's manufacturing cost advantage and the attraction of IRA industrial policy in the United States, European photovoltaic enterprises either went bankrupt or "fled", and the wave of layoffs and bankruptcies broke out.
In recent years, the geopolitical conflicts around Europe and the changes in the situation in the Middle East have made Europe realize that in the photovoltaic field." Europe chooses to pass
According to the proposal, the EU plans to award photovoltaic projects through public procurement, net-zero technology auctions and public support schemes during the three-year transition period after its entry into force. The launch of the " that solar energy manufactured in the EU must be used means that Europe's move to rebuild the photovoltaic manufacturing chain is extending further upstream. And try to cover more key manufacturing links. For China's photovoltaic industry, Europe may face greater uncertainty in the future. Under the background of increasing trade barriers and localization requirements, the test faced by Chinese enterprises is no longer just how to "sell products", but how to find new overseas development paths.
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