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📖 Leadership Chronicle: Inside NexWafe with Karl Friedrich Haarburger 📖 The Leadership Chronicles series poses questions to NexWafe executives about their career, professional experiences and the company. 🔹 Karl Friedrich Haarburger, CEO, NexWafe Si-Fab 🔹 Joined NexWafe May 2016 Excerpts from the full Q&A: Q: What brought you to NexWafe and what does your role entail? A: I love working in a start-up environment with flat hierarchies: Everyone's contribution is visible and important. At NexWafe, I’m building a new factory for the fourth time in my career, using my experience in both the solar and chemical industries. While I am part of the management team, the company is small and fast moving, and I work on technical issues every day. Q: What promise do you see for NexWafe’s solar wafers? A: With our direct ‘gas-to wafer’ technology, we can produce higher-quality wafers with a lower CO2 footprint, which is a disruptive technology that could replace the current Cz technology for wafer production. Ultimately, it’s about supporting the growth of solar in the fight against climate change. Q: What’s your most important advice for people pursuing a career as a business leader? A: I'm old-fashioned on this point: When your employees don't know how to proceed, help them solve the problems so that they recognize you as a role model. The most important thing in leadership is trust. Therefore, always treat employees, colleagues and business partners with mutual trust and respect and always meet your commitments. Read the full Q&A at the link below! Follow NexWafe for more new Leadership Chronicles. #RenewableEnergy #Solar #Leadership #SolarPower

An insightful interview with NexWafe's Giuliano Vescovi shared by SiLEAN, one of NexWafe's R&D collaboration partners.

A new report shows U.S. solar panel production capacity has more than quintupled since the IRA was enacted in August 2022, but gaps in the domestic supply chain. SEMA continues to work with the Biden-Harris Administration to ensure the domestic content bonus provides the incentives needed to reshore the full supply chain. Read more about the current landscape of the U.S. solar domestic supply chain in S&P Global: https://lnkd.in/eSrSaMQ4 #manufacturing #solar #supplychain #policy #trade

Today in our "Meet the EPIteam: Faces Behind the Innovation" series, we’re excited to introduce Nikko Barongan, Process Development Engineer! 🎉 Nikko contributes significantly to our team's success through his work in process development. Want to know what drives him or which movie he recommends as a must-watch? Read on! Stay tuned to this NexWafe channel as we continue to highlight more inspiring members of the EPIteam in upcoming posts! #EmployeeSpotlight #Solar #SolarPV

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🍻 EpiHour at NexWafe: Oktoberfest Edition 🥨 Our last EpiHour was a fantastic mix of Bavarian charm and casual networking! We embraced the Oktoberfest theme with beer, pretzels and a cosy, relaxed atmosphere. It was the perfect opportunity to get together, network and have a few laughs. A big shout out to everyone who joined us for this lively after-work get-together. Special thanks to all who helped organize another memorable event! Prost! #EmployeeEngagement #Solar

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released the final section 48D Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit (CHIPS ITC) rules. The CHIPS ITC provides a 25 percent investment tax credit for domestic production of semiconductors and semiconductor equipment manufacturing. Michael Carr, Executive Director of the SEMA Coalition, released the below statement following the announcement: “The final 48D rules will help solar manufacturers unlock the full potential of the CHIPS and Science Act by providing critical support for efforts to reshore the entire solar supply chain. We applaud Treasury’s final CHIPS ITC rules, which clarify that domestic solar ingot and wafer manufacturers can access this landmark incentive. The Biden-Harris Administration's efforts will drive significant investment in domestic solar ingot and wafer manufacturing capacity, currently dominated by China, help meet our economic and national security goals, and support thousands of good-paying jobs across the country. “We appreciate the efforts that went into this significant rulemaking and look forward to continuing our work with the Biden-Harris Administration on leveraging other tools, such as the Inflation Reduction Act’s domestic content provisions, to support the reshoring of the full solar supply chain.” Read the full release: https://lnkd.in/dn7rzxht

New US rules support solar supply chain, manufacturing: New US incentives support solar manufacturers and encourage the domestic build-out of the earlier stages of the solar supply chain. #Renewables #Energy #Technology

Today, we welcome the news that domestic manufacturing of solar ingots and wafers is now included with a 25% investment tax credit under Section 48D of the Advanced Manufacturing Investment Credit rules in the CHIPS Act. This is a win for rebuilding the US solar supply chain. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo of PV Tech shares industry insights on the news: “The final 48D rules will help solar manufacturers unlock the full potential of the CHIPS and Science Act by providing critical support for efforts to reshore the entire solar supply chain. We applaud Treasury’s final CHIPS ITC rules, which clarify that domestic solar ingot and wafer manufacturers can access this landmark incentive,” said Mike Carr, executive director at the Solar Energy Manufacturers for America (SEMA) Coalition. NexWafe and SEMA Coalition both called for the inclusion of domestic incentives for manufacturing solar wafers. https://bit.ly/40be7bD #Solar #USmanufacturing #CHIPSact

PV CellTech USA published a special US solar news roundup in advance of the recent conference. With reporting from the PV Tech editorial team, it covers US PV manufacturing developments, milestones and insights. It also includes NexWafe CEO Davor Sutija's guest blog, "Scaling the solar supply chain to 50GW annually: challenges and opportunities for US manufacturing," on page 16. Read Davor's article here: https://lnkd.in/eWWyNu2Z (Image courtesy of #PVCellTech) #Solar #RenewableEnergy #EnergyTransition #USmanufacturing