CEO, RCT Solutions GmbH
Dr. Fath is a globally known renewable energy visionary. Starting from the early days of the renewable and solar industry, he took the lead on the green energy transition with groundbreaking establishments, semiconductor developments, and integrated solar manufacturing facilities from polysilicon production to the end product – solar modules.
Dr. Peter Fath holds a Ph.D. in Semiconductor Physics from the University of Constance. He studied Chemistry and Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Constance in Germany; IMEC in Leuven, Belgium; and IMT in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
He has worked at the University of Constance as Deputy leader of the Novel Semiconductor & Solar Research Institute. He continues his academic life as a lecturer for Manufacturing Technology for the PV Industry at the University of Applied Science Ravensburg.
Currently, he is the CEO of RCT Solutions GmbH – which works closely with investors, governments, and factories globally to establish solar manufacturing facilities by providing extensive owner’s engineering services - making the world a greener place and helping the world to reach zero emissions targets.
Dr. Fath has more than 200 publications, and 15 patents, and serves as a board member of the world’s most well-known associations in the solar industry such as the German Machine Maker Association, ISC International Solar Research Institute, and European Solar Manufacturing Council.
With his presentation at KAUST, he will be sharing his hands-on experiences in establishing integrated photovoltaic manufacturing with several successful examples from around the globe.
Solar energy is one of the most cost-effective renewable energy sources and one of the strong pillars of our future global energy supply system. To reduce CO2 emissions, solar installations have to be substantially increased resulting in a very high demand for solar modules. The global module production capacity has to be increased by at least a factor of four in a concise time period of 10 years. This is a global challenge and all industrialized countries such as China, India, Europe, the USA, Middle East are now establishing or reestablishing new multi-tens of GW solar manufacturing capacities. Controlling the value chain as a multi-GW manufacturer is a must to reach the required cost, and quality and to be independent of material cost fluctuations. In the presentation, different approaches to setting up integrated solar manufacturing facilities will be discussed, example cases of newly prepared solar factories outside China will be described and comparative production cost analysis of different regions will be shown.
CEO, RCT Solutions GmbH
Solar energy is one of the most cost-effective renewable energy sources and one of the strong pillars of our future global energy supply system. To reduce CO2 emissions, solar installations have to be substantially increased resulting in a very high demand for solar modules. The global module production capacity has to be increased by at least a factor of four in a very short time period of 10 years. This is a global challenge and all industrialized countries such as China, India, Europe, the USA, Middle East are now establishing or reestablishing new multi-tens of GW solar manufacturing capacities. Controlling the value chain as a multi-GW manufacturer is a must to reach the required cost, and quality and to be independent of material cost fluctuations. In the presentation, different approaches to setting up integrated solar manufacturing facilities will be discussed, example cases of newly prepared solar factories outside China will be described and comparative production cost analysis of different regions shown.
CEO, RCT Solutions GmbH