Glass and glazing system provider Nippon Sheet Glass Co. (NSG Group) lately introduced it might put money into further clear conductive oxide (TCO) glass manufacturing capability at its plant in Rossford, Ohio, to assist the photo voltaic market. The float line at Pilkington North America, a member of NSG Group, will start delivery TCO glass for photo voltaic panels by Q1 2025.
First Photo voltaic thin-film manufacturing
Pilkington will provide glass to the increasing manufacturing campus of First Photo voltaic, simply up the road close to Perrysburg, Ohio. The 2 corporations have had a prolonged manufacturing partnership, with NSG Group first beginning a devoted float line for photo voltaic glass in Vietnam in January 2020 and opening a brand new plant in Luckey, Ohio in November 2020. One other NSG Group float line was lately accomplished in Malaysia, and all glass produced in these vegetation is completely equipped to First Photo voltaic. As soon as this expanded line begins manufacturing in Rossford, NSG Group can have 5 devoted strains for First Photo voltaic.
First Photo voltaic presently operates three photo voltaic panel manufacturing websites in Ohio, with roughly 7 GW of annual capability. The skinny-film photo voltaic panel producer can be constructing two vegetation outdoors of Ohio — a 3.5-GW manufacturing facility in Alabama and a 3.5-GW manufacturing facility in Louisiana. They’re anticipated to open in 2025 and 2026, respectively.
For photo voltaic panels to qualify for “home content material” tax credit from the IRA, they have to use American-made photo voltaic cells, frames, again rails, glass, encapsulants, backsheets, junction packing containers, edge seals, pottants, adhesives, bus ribbons and bypass diodes. First Photo voltaic seemingly has probably the most American provide chain within the business and can proceed to have American glass with this NSG expanded relationship.
