Successful Completion of Milestones for Tata Steel Project

On April 13, the Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) approved the penultimate milestones in the three-year partnership project with Tata Steel to develop and demonstrate the capability to produce dye solar cells integrated onto coil-coated steel.

This follows two recent announcements in connection with the project. On March 29, Tata Steel announced that the partners would be increasing the joint resources on the project from 30 to 50 as it moves into the pre-industrialization phase. On 31 March Tata Steel and the Low Carbon Institute opened the Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) in Shotton, at which the first prototype roof demonstration modules from the PV project were displayed.

The two milestone achievements were the building of large scale demonstration modules, and production of a detailed technology roadmap that determines how the required end product performance and cost goals would be achieved.