Silarus, a subsidiary of the chemical company Titan, has hired the Schmid Group, Schmid Silicon Technology and EPC Engineering Consulting to build the factory, reported Photovoltaics World. Silarus signed the agreements with the German companies at a raw materials conference in Moscow last month.
The complex reportedly would have a plant capable of producing 10,000 metric tons of polysilicon per year. It would also have production lines for wafer, cells and panels. The overall project would cost about €1.6 billion ($2.4 billion).
The project is likely to be built in phases. Few companies in the world have the gigawatt capacity. First Solar in the United States and Suntech Power in China are among them.
Russia hasn't been a hot bed for solar manufacturing, but it seems to have that ambition. It's home to Nitol Solar, a polysilicon producer.
Earlier this year, a Russian investment firm, Renova Group, said it was teaming up with the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies to build a 120-megawatt factory to make solar panels in central Russia (Chuvashia).
The joint venture, called Nano Solar Technology (NST), has ordered equipment from Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland, and plans to start installing it in 2010. The equipment would enable NST to produce solar panels that rely on amorphous silicon and microcrystalline silicon to convert sunlight into electricity.
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