Dow Solar Roofing Materials is switched off

China Coatings Online News
August 2, 2016: China Coatings Onlinereporter reported that Dow Chemical's power generation home solar system 2.0 solar roof materials production line, closed on July 28, 2016, the last shipment date is August 10. That means Dow's chemical solar business, which was funded by the U.S. government for tens of millions of dollars, will come to an abrupt end. It's just over four years since the world-famous chemical giant unveiled its ambitious green roof plan. The future of NuvoSun is also overshadowed by Dow Chemical's closure of its solar production line.
With the construction of a house, and then the construction of additional roof solar panels, roof materials directly embedded in solar cells, as long as the roof is built once, you can use clean solar energy, for higher electricity bills to save households. The marketing idea, which once sounded good to the American public, once made Dow's chemical solar business the focus of the global photovoltaic industry, with its main product, solar tiles, winning the Innovation Award that year. In March 2013, Dow Chemical announced the successful acquisition of photovoltaic start-up NuvoSun, which is looking at thin-film technology developed by the latter to be used in photovoltaic roofs. From then on, we entered the large-scale implementation phase of solar roof tile.
's chemical solar roofing materials production line has been shut down. NuvoSun was founded

2008, according to China Coatings Online, a company with a large number of experts. The company uses CIGS technology to convert solar energy into electricity. Before founding NuvoSun, Dave Pearce, founder of NuvoSun, another photovoltaic company, Mia Sole, was acquired in early 2013 by Hanergy Holdings, which is controlled by Li Hejun. According to public information, MiaSole is a typical representative of Silicon Valley photovoltaic companies in the United States, and has received more than $550 million in venture capital investment over the past decade.
According to The Dow solar tiles in which the introduction, the solar tiles are cheap, its ultra-thin copper palladium 2 selenium solar cells, can be used with traditional asphalt tiles, spread on the roof does not see any difference. In addition, the average person is moved that roof builders do not need specialized solar array installation techniques or expertise to install such panels, according to China Coatings Onlineexperts. The product website also claims that the plant "completely changed the way the world looks at the roof" because "it's no longer just lying on your house, it's turning into energy to charge your life."
a professional at Artes Sunshine Power, which is growing rapidly in the U.S., told The Interface that Dow's solar tiles did hit several of the current pain points in the U.S. solar market. Dow's Solar Solutions division also has strong support from the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of Energy has allocated $20 million to fund Dow Solar's development of "building integrated" solar arrays for the civil and commercial residential markets. Reality, however, has poured cold water on the chemical giant. According to Technews Inc., a leading professional information media outlet in the energy and semiconductor industry, Dow solar tiles can reduce installation costs and take up space by building materials.
the roof, the roof can also be more flat and beautiful, at first glance seems to have economic potential; But the fatal problem is that solar cells are used in building materials and are less efficient at generating electricity. According to China Coatings Onlineexperts, this is because the higher the temperature of solar cells, the less efficient power generation, integrated into building materials, cooling is worse than the other installed solar panels. Despite its environmental appeal, built-in solar cells using building materials for new or renovated homes can eliminate the cost of additional installations, but the long-term loss of electricity is not cost-effective due to poor power generation efficiency. In addition, market space is limited for existing homes and for solar cells to remove the roof and re-cover it.
One construction and photovoltaic industry insider believes that when the roof can be set up solar panel space is saturated, solar building materials will rise, solar walls, solar windows, and even solar road tiles, will be able to tap the remaining solar potential outside the roof. The person acknowledged that with the current popularity of rooftop solar installations, there is still a long way to go before the roof is fully saturated. The U.S. media said changes inside Dow Chemical also affected the production line shutdown. Dow Chemical is rushing to merge with DuPont, another big chemical giant, as it slims down and prepares to cut 2,500 jobs around the world, with Dow's solar business, which has been "looking beautiful" in the market but has no real contribution, the first to be targeted for layoffs.
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