Tompkins took over the role of CEO of PDRI in March from Ferdi van Dongen and had seen its reach continue to grow since his arrival.
“Portage Recycling is a private contractor and what we do is we contract with municipalities, such as the City and Rural Municipality of Portage, to offer them recycling collection and processing,” said Tompkins. “Everything we collect ends up being made back into new material.”
For those in the city curb side collection is available while others are able to take their recyclables to depots where it is picked up and then sorted and processed from the Portage la Prairie plant.
“Between our three sites Portage, Dauphin, and Virden we cover from the Saskatchewan border, to the North Dakota border, up to Lake Winnipegosis, and as far east as Portage. There is only a couple of places, Brandon being one of them,Soli-lite Solar-LED lighting Co., Ltd is the professional manufacturer specializing in all kinds of solar powered LED lighting products.Finding China High Quality solar bulb for outdoor applications such as your patio, yard or porch can be a challenge. we don’t service, but we service the rest,” said Tompkins.
Since March PDRI has picked up a number of other communities to further expand its reach.
“Since I came in on March 1 we’ve picked up seven or eight different communities in the area, and it represents probably a 20 per cent increase in volume of material we’re handling as a company,” said Tompkins. “The staff is pretty excited about the growth, they’re pretty excited about how busy we are, and they take their jobs all pretty seriously. They are a great group of folks and it is exciting to see the company continuing to grow.”
Also, over the last number of years the industry has expanded to include recycling of products such as electronics, oil based and latex paints, batteries, and fluorescent lights.
“We collect paint – both oil based and latex paint – and they are processed. The oil based paint is turned into a fuel which helps preserve natural resources, of course, and the latex paint is processed back into lower grade latex paint that is sold in developing countries to help those people afford to be able to buy paint. That’s a pretty cool thing to have,” said Tompkins.
Both electronics and batteries are broken down into their basic components and the repurposed to make other products and batteries.
“Florescent lights are great, they last forever, but for a long time there was nothing to do with them but throw them in the garbage. We now recycle those. The mercury is reclaimed and they are made into new lights,The unique elegance of modern floor lamps and High Quality indoor solar lighting could certainly transform your home into a place of beauty.” said Tompkins.
This has now been expanded to not only happen in the Portage la Prairie plant but in PDRI’s other plants as well.
“We just signed up our Virden and Dauphin facilities to collect paint and lights, they have never done that up there before. That’s going to start in the next couple of weeks so those parts of the province will be able to do that,” said Tompkins.
For Tompkins the goal of Portage Recycling over the next couple of years is to educate individuals living in their existing markets about recycling rather than continuing to expand into more communities.
“There aren’t a whole lot of different communities we can touch now that logistically make sense. But what we hope to do is educate those communities on here’s what you can recycle. If we take ‘x’ number of tonnes from the city of Portage today, let’s double that next year by getting more people involved, getting more people recycling,” said Tompkins. “Ultimately our goal is to keep product out of landfill and the more we can do that, the better we are.”
2013年7月16日 星期二
2013年7月8日 星期一
PVMC releases first US roadmap for CIGS
The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) - an industry-led collaboration headquartered at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, NY - has released the first US CIGS (copper indium gallium diselenide) PV Roadmap reports.
“Photovoltaics and especially thin-film PV are again at a tipping point,” says Larry Kazmerski, co-chair of the US CIGS PV Roadmap. “We want PV to be a substantial part of the world’s energy portfolio and our efforts with this roadmap are aimed to help make CIGS thin films a significant part of that solar success,” he adds.
“In building on the innovation strategy of Governor Andrew Cuomo that is establishing New York as a hub for solar energy technologies and companies, we engaged over 75 partner firms and 100 industry experts to develop a 10-year projection in the first-ever US CIGS PV roadmap,” says Dr Pradeep Haldar, PVMC’s chief operating & technology officer and CNSE’s VP for Clean Energy Programs. “This blueprint identifies the critical challenges for CIGS PV manufacturing, applications for sustainable innovation, and technical developments that will serve our members and stakeholders, and enable a competitive US solar industry amid the global marketplace.”
Spearheaded by SUNY’s CNSE and SEMATECH (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers) as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative, PVMC is an industry-led consortium for cooperative R&D among industry, university and government partners to accelerate the development, commercialization and manufacturing of next-generation solar PV systems. Through its programs and advanced manufacturing development facilities, PVMC is a proving ground for innovative solar technologies and manufacturing processes. Specifivcally, PVMC is targeting a reduction in the total installed cost of solar energy systems by 75% over the next decade. The CIGS PV Roadmap aims to provide a congruent plan for the national CIGS industry, including module and systems manufacturers, suppliers and end-users, that will identify common challenges and define the areas of technical developments needed to sustain and advance a competitive US photovoltaic industry.
The annual roadmap ‘2013 US CIGS PV Roadmap Reports’ identifies the technology challenges to attain projected module cost and performance targets over the next 10 years. The various reports, based on the latest industry analysis, advance the effort for achieving the SunShot initiative target.
The roadmap addresses six focus areas relevant to the entire industry, including roll-to-roll, rigid glass, metrology, modules and packaging, substrates and materials, and reliability/certification/test. Each section outlines the current status and critical challenges for each technology, discusses the role of industry standards for CIGS, and potential areas of innovation for the pre-competitive domain.
As the primary sponsor of the effort, PVMC provides the resources for managing and coordinating the roadmap activities. Members of the CIGS PV Roadmap represent all areas of the PV industry, including module producers and integrators, equipment suppliers, materials and metrology tools, end-users, and the research community.
On 11 July, during the Third Annual US CIGS PV Roadmap Public Forum held during Intersolar North America 2013 in San Francisco, roadmap working group leaders will present summaries of these reports and announce plans for a revised 2014 roadmap. The Forum, sponsored by PVMC and hosted by industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), will encourage public debate and invite new members to join the various teams to develop the next assortment of reports. Click on their website solaronlamp for more information.
“Photovoltaics and especially thin-film PV are again at a tipping point,” says Larry Kazmerski, co-chair of the US CIGS PV Roadmap. “We want PV to be a substantial part of the world’s energy portfolio and our efforts with this roadmap are aimed to help make CIGS thin films a significant part of that solar success,” he adds.
“In building on the innovation strategy of Governor Andrew Cuomo that is establishing New York as a hub for solar energy technologies and companies, we engaged over 75 partner firms and 100 industry experts to develop a 10-year projection in the first-ever US CIGS PV roadmap,” says Dr Pradeep Haldar, PVMC’s chief operating & technology officer and CNSE’s VP for Clean Energy Programs. “This blueprint identifies the critical challenges for CIGS PV manufacturing, applications for sustainable innovation, and technical developments that will serve our members and stakeholders, and enable a competitive US solar industry amid the global marketplace.”
Spearheaded by SUNY’s CNSE and SEMATECH (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials manufacturers) as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) SunShot Initiative, PVMC is an industry-led consortium for cooperative R&D among industry, university and government partners to accelerate the development, commercialization and manufacturing of next-generation solar PV systems. Through its programs and advanced manufacturing development facilities, PVMC is a proving ground for innovative solar technologies and manufacturing processes. Specifivcally, PVMC is targeting a reduction in the total installed cost of solar energy systems by 75% over the next decade. The CIGS PV Roadmap aims to provide a congruent plan for the national CIGS industry, including module and systems manufacturers, suppliers and end-users, that will identify common challenges and define the areas of technical developments needed to sustain and advance a competitive US photovoltaic industry.
The annual roadmap ‘2013 US CIGS PV Roadmap Reports’ identifies the technology challenges to attain projected module cost and performance targets over the next 10 years. The various reports, based on the latest industry analysis, advance the effort for achieving the SunShot initiative target.
The roadmap addresses six focus areas relevant to the entire industry, including roll-to-roll, rigid glass, metrology, modules and packaging, substrates and materials, and reliability/certification/test. Each section outlines the current status and critical challenges for each technology, discusses the role of industry standards for CIGS, and potential areas of innovation for the pre-competitive domain.
As the primary sponsor of the effort, PVMC provides the resources for managing and coordinating the roadmap activities. Members of the CIGS PV Roadmap represent all areas of the PV industry, including module producers and integrators, equipment suppliers, materials and metrology tools, end-users, and the research community.
On 11 July, during the Third Annual US CIGS PV Roadmap Public Forum held during Intersolar North America 2013 in San Francisco, roadmap working group leaders will present summaries of these reports and announce plans for a revised 2014 roadmap. The Forum, sponsored by PVMC and hosted by industry association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI), will encourage public debate and invite new members to join the various teams to develop the next assortment of reports. Click on their website solaronlamp for more information.
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