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The objectives of the National Photovoltaics (PV) Environmental Research Center are to: a) Identify potential environmental, health and safety (EHS) barriers for photovoltaic materials, processes or applications and define strategies to overcome such barriers; b) assist the industry, the DOE and its contractors in maintaining safe and environmentally friendly facilities, minimizing EHS risks and reducing EHS related costs, to ensure the public support and economic viability of PV; c) maintain the center as the world’s best source on PV-EHS, providing accurate information related to EHS issues and perceptions.

The Center has supported the DOE headquarters, NREL, SNL, and the PV industry since the 1980s.  It has strong relationships with most PV manufacturers, the National Renewable Laboratory’s (NREL) solar energy projects, the DOE’s  small business research  projects. Until three years ago, the Center’s activities were focused on PV manufacturing EH&S.  In 2004, activities on PV product recycling and life cycle assessment were initiated and have now become important components of a proactive environmental strategy in a global scale.

More at www.bnl.gov/pv/.

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One of ten national laboratories overseen and primarily funded by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as well as in energy technologies and national security. Brookhaven Lab also builds and operates major scientific facilities available to university, industry and government researchers. Brookhaven is operated and managed for DOE’s Office of Science by Brookhaven Science Associates, a limited-liability company founded by Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities, and Battelle, a nonprofit, applied science and technology organization.

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