DuPont has opened the Meyrin Photovoltaic Application Laboratory at its European Technical Center IN Geneva to address the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic market.

The Meyrin Photovoltaic Application Lab will operate as an open center, enabling technological exchanges and research collaborations between DuPont and customers, industrial partners, institutes and academia.

The lab is designed to advance state-of-the-art solar module design, accelerate time to market in photovoltaic innovation and deliver cost-effective, high-performance solutions for the photovoltaic industry.

“Addressing energy needs is a global concern. The generation and storage of renewable energy will be the fastest growing sector in the energy market for the next 20 years,” said DuPont chair and CEO Ellen Kullman.

“We can apply the power of our market-driven science to offer products and technologies that can transform the sun’s potential into clean energy, contributing to decreasing dependence on fossil fuels.”

DuPont anticipates that the photovoltaic market will grow by about 30 per cent in 2010 and will continue to grow rapidly over the next three years.-TradeArabia News Service