Xinjiang Eyed as Home for a Massive New Solar Polysilicon Plant

• Xinjiang Jingnuo New Energy makes an application for 100k ton/year plant
• Region is home to insurance claims of Uyghur human rights abuses

Xinjiang, the western Chinese area inspected by civils rights lobbyists, is being looked at for a massive brand-new solar polysilicon plant that would certainly prolong its grip on the industry.

Xinjiang Jingnuo New Energy Industry Development Co. has sent an environmental impact evaluation looking for approval to build a 100,000-ton-a-year polysilicon plant in the city of Huyanghe, according to a blog post on the municipal government internet site.

Four factories in the area presently produce regarding half the world's polysilicon, an ultra-conductive material used in photovoltaic panels to transform photons of light into electricity. The largest is Xinte Energy Co.'s 72,000-ton-a-year plant, which is currently being expanded.

Xinjiang uses a few of the most affordable electrical energy in China, a draw for the power-hungry organization of refining polysilicon. It's additionally a lightning rod for global objection over allegations of forced labor and also human rights misuses versus the ethnic Uyghur minority population.

China has actually refuted the cases, which have actually captured the polysilicon industry, as well as states they're the work of international federal governments trying to threaten the nation's successful industries.

A number of business have actually revealed massive brand-new polysilicon factories this year, as tidy energy aspirations have actually created need to rise as well as prices to more than quadruple in the past year. Xinte has introduced plans for a 200,000-ton-a-year facility in Inner Mongolia, while East Hope Group signed an agreement with authorities in Ningxia to construct a 250,000-ton-a-year plant.