Environmental profiling of photovoltaics

Services and products

• Life Cycle Inventory & Assessment (ISO-14040)
• Energy PayBack Time
• Carbon Footprinting (CO₂ equivalent emissions)
• Emissions & abatement
• Environmental profiling
• On-site data collection & reporting

Applications

• Marketing & promotion
• Benchmark (new processes, competing technologies)
• Legislation
• Improved production processes, lower costs
• Improved environmental performances
• Recycling
• Contribute to sustainability reporting, such as Global Reporting Initiative

Customers

• PV industry
  • Feedstock
  • Wafers
  • Solar cells (x-Si & thin-film)
  • PV modules
  • PV systems
  • Equipment manufacturers
• Project developers
• Governmental organizations