Solar Power

The right stuff for capturing solar energy: The chemical element silicon (Si), which can be found in every grain of sand, plays a prominent role in photovoltaics, whether as metallic raw silicon, as a polycrystalline material for installation in solar cells, or as a finished solar cell.

Demand for sustainable energy generation is witnessing an above-average increase worldwide. The solar energy market is an enormous growth market that has been recording solid double-digit growth rates for many years as well as sales volumes in the range of tens of billions of euros. Several of Evonik’s business units have already been delivering large numbers of products to the solar industry.