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Norway delivers the best and cleanest raw materials for solar
- Published 14 March 2023; updated 25 March 2026; estimated reading time 4 minutes. The article reports that EU solar installations exceeded 41 GW in 2022, over 50% growth year on year, and Norwegian installations grew 350% to 149 MW; these are historical 2022 statistics. It argues Norwegian silicon production can have a lower footprint because of energy-efficient processes and hydropower.
- Erik Marstein of SuSolTech and the Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) says Norwegian firms have developed energy-efficient refining and can produce silicon at 99.99999% purity or higher. REC Solar Norway’s Fiskaa plant is described as producing high-purity silicon with Environmental Product Declarations for silicon and multicrystalline blocks. Dynatec Engineering and IFE developed a solar-silicon process that the article says grows material 40 times faster and more efficiently than conventional approaches; Dynatec received a Research Council of Norway Innovation Award.
- The article discusses silicon’s potential in batteries, claiming silicon could theoretically increase battery capacity tenfold, while noting strong competition from China, Japan, South Korea, Germany and the US and the need for lower-cost, high-volume production. Claims of Norwegian leadership and future market potential are promotional and attributed to Marstein/page sources.
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