Our mission and innovation

The Yulduz Environment company, together with one of the leading research institutes in Central Asia and Uzbekistan—the Institute of Ion Plasma and Laser Technologies, named after U.A.Arifov of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan—offers solutions to global problems facing humanity. Our mission is to help solve pressing global problems such as climate change, the desire to break free from China’s monopoly in the production of solar panels and monosilane, the transition to clean energy and reducing dependence on Russian hydrocarbons in Europe, supporting the green transition in the EU, and facilitating the transition to a circular economy.

According to Market Research Intellect, the European monosilane and silane market is projected to reach USD 115.58 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.61% from 2024 to 2031, reaching USD 200.34 billion by 2031. The market’s rapid growth is driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer preferences, and increasing investments in R&D. Government initiatives and favourable policies further support this expansion, while rising demand for sustainable, high-quality products pushes companies to develop eco-friendly solutions. here

Our innovative monosilane production technology can be integrated across all industries that use monosilane. However, we are focusing on the solar panel sector. With China’s growing dominance in solar cell production, the EU’s green transition, and the move toward a circular economy, our technology has the potential to transform the solar panel industry. It not only addresses Europe’s challenges in solar production but also reduces monosilane production costs by up to 20%. According to Market Research Intellect, the European monosilane and silane market is projected to reach USD 115.58 billion in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.61% from 2024 to 2031, reaching USD 200.34 billion by 2031. The market’s rapid growth is driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer preferences, and increasing investments in R&&D. Government initiatives and favourable policies further support this expansion, while rising demand for sustainable, high-quality products pushes companies to develop eco-friendly solutions. here

Also, global polysilicon production is mainly concentrated in China. China is the largest producer and exporter of polysilicon in the world. If 12, 13 years ago, China’s share in the world’s polysilicon production was only 30%, then by 2021 it had grown to 76%, and in the solar energy sector—even more than 80%. Nevertheless, other countries, including the EU, are introducing policies aimed at strengthening the supply chain and stimulating domestic production. Our technologies are ready to make a significant contribution to these European efforts. We firmly believe, like Nikola Tesla, that the purpose of science is to improve the lives of mankind. Today we are faced with the most important task—the transition to a new ethics, where one of the most important human needs will be the provision of electricity and heat based on clean technologies, free from geopolitical risks that can lead to wars and conflicts. The recent events prove it.

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has forced Europe and other regions of the world to accelerate their transition away from fossil fuels, which have become a tool of influence for totalitarian regimes. This highlights the urgent need for a rapid transition to green energy. Climate change and the need for a new, greener world are forcing science and business to work hand in hand as they seek new opportunities to move into a new era where cutting-edge innovation, environmental sustainability, a circular economy, and high ethical standards will be the basis for growth and efficiency.

Our patented technology, with patents in the US, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, and as of 2022 the EU patent, is backed by years of research by our scientists and is ready to provide its answer to the main challenges facing green energy in Europe and many other countries.

We stand ready to help Europe’s efforts to end the EU’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. And we are ready to help Europe avoid new dependence on China or other unpredictable countries in the production of green energy, especially solar panels and monosilane. And we are ready to make our contribution to the production of solar panels using monosilane as a raw material environmentally friendly, ethically impeccable, and at the same time profitable not only for large businesses but also for small and medium-sized businesses, thereby expanding the possibilities for the production of solar panels.

We offer a unique project that combines the production of raw materials for solar panels—monosilane—and the production of solar panels themselves. We have improved this concept previously known and made it commercially profitable, environmentally friendly, and ethically correct, having patented our innovative technology, including in the EU. Today, solar energy is a promising industry in the field of renewables. According to the authoritative publication The Conversation, solar energy production will become most profitable by 2030. The Conversation conducted the study, analysing the latest technological and economic data from 70 regions of the world and combining it into a macroeconomic model. The study results indicate that by the middle of this century, solar energy will provide more than half of the world’s electricity production. A recent report from the German economic ministry, published by media group Funke, confirmed this trend, reporting that solar installations in Germany reached a record 12 gigawatts in 2023, an 84% increase from 2022.

However, ensuring energy security requires efficient and environmentally friendly expansion of solar panel production and solar panel raw materials such as monosilane. This will make solar energy one of the leading industries contributing to the energy security of all humanity. Nevertheless, one of the main obstacles to achieving this goal is dependence on the leading country in the production of solar technologies, China. According to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report on the state of the global solar industry, that is, the industry that makes solar modules and what those modules are made of, China has invested dozens of times more than Europe into the industry since 2011, and today China accounts for 80% of the world’s production of polysilicon, ingots, and silicon wafers. The IEA believes that, taking into account the production facilities being built in China, by 2025, China’s share could grow to 95%. This means that other countries are extremely dependent on China, and this dependence could become critical. And in connection with this, the risk of various kinds of foreign trade restrictions and political risks affecting the development of solar energy is growing.

Dependence on any country, especially those that are unpredictable, and transferring the energy security of entire continents or regions to such countries can cause serious political and other problems, and the recent example of dependence on Russian fossil fuels is proof of this. Of course, in recent years, Europe has done a lot to develop solar energy. In 2020, the Solar Industry Accelerator was launched, created by the European Solar Energy Association SolarPower Europe with the support of strategic partners ESMC (European Solar Industry Council), ETIP-PV (European Technology Platform and Innovation), IPVF (French Photovoltaic Institute), and VDMA (German Association of Mechanical Engineers). In 2021, the European Solar Initiative was created, with the goal of creating 20 GW of solar modules by 2025.

But today, only less than 3% of solar panels installed in Europe are manufactured in Europe, and this undoubtedly poses a challenge to Europe’s energy security.

It is important to note that the success of countries like China in solar energy is largely due to protectionist policies and government subsidies. Without such support, the large monosilane and solar panel industries, both existing and under construction in China, would not be as profitable as they are now. But nevertheless, new innovations are needed in this area that would expand the production of monosilane and solar panels, attracting small and medium-sized businesses to this area and at the same time making the production of monosilane and solar panels more environmentally friendly and energy efficient. Russia’s aggression against Ukraine emphasised the importance of accounting for political risks in the field of dependence of continents and countries on a single producer of vital products. This case showed that a monopoly on energy resources can not only jeopardise energy security but also the national security of the consumer country. That is why our primary goal is to help reduce dependence in the field of renewable energy, especially solar energy, on monopolists through innovative solutions and innovative technologies. Our innovative technology represents a single closed, environmentally friendly, waste-free production cycle of monosilane—the main raw material for creating highly efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells. Our technology opens up the possibility of organising a larger number of similar productions, thanks to the integration of raw material production into technological lines for the manufacturing of solar panels within small and medium-sized businesses, which undoubtedly gives a competitive advantage to our technology. In addition, given that monosilane is an explosive gas, and its transportation requires special conditions, which significantly affects the cost of the product, the possibility of organizing and integrating monosilane production in close proximity to solar cell production creates an attractive solution from an economic point of view. It is important to bring together concepts such as climate change and competitiveness while ensuring Europe’s energy security, and we can and want to provide a solution that will support the green transition, while providing a competitive and efficient solution that will give the EU an incredible competitive opportunity in solar energy against the backdrop of the growing influence in this industry of countries such as China, India and others. Apart from the economic aspects, it is also important to us to ensure that the raw materials used to create solar panels are produced in an environmentally friendly manner and to help create an environmentally friendly manufacturing process for the panels themselves.

This is especially important for us developers, since we are closely connected with the Central Asian region, which in the past experienced some of the worst environmental disasters in human history. We all remember the tragedy of the Aral Sea, which has almost completely dried up due to intensive agriculture, and the terrible consequences of testing at the Soviet nuclear test site in Semipalatinsk. The environmental damage inflicted on humanity has led to the death of many species and to one of the largest ecocides in human history, to the destruction of the unique natural resources of our region, for example, to the almost complete destruction of the unique tugai forests of Central Asia. The uncontrolled use of pesticides in the region’s agriculture when growing cotton, which became a monoculture for Uzbekistan during the Soviet regime, including prohibited substances such as the Agent Orange analogue Butifos, has led to an increase in cases of cancer and serious organ damage. Pollution of water, air, and soil in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries has reached critical levels, exceeding the maximum permissible standards by thousands of times.

Infant mortality in the region was 50% higher than in other parts of the former Soviet Union.

We dwell in detail on our historical experience precisely because it is our duty and responsibility to follow the highest environmental standards and be environmentally ethical! In addition, our region of Central Asia is already feeling the consequences of climate change, in particular, the intensive desertification of our region; every day in Uzbekistan, 9 km of land turns into desert. All this obliges us to be extremely persistent in our pursuit of environmental cleanliness. We are proud that our technology does not use chlorine or chlorinated compounds, which are common in traditional monosilane production methods. Moreover, our technology does not generate production waste, and the by-product is environmentally friendly green hydrogen. Another important factor: according to the International Energy Agency in China, 60% of solar panel production runs on electricity generated by coal-fired power plants. That is, many solar panels that the EU imports from China have a negative carbon footprint. The introduction of the innovative technology we propose in the EU will help reduce the dependence of the European market on Chinese manufacturers of solar panels and monosilane, which will save the EU from solar panels that have a carbon footprint. At the same time, the EU has the strictest standards in the world regulating carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. And the technology we offer for the production of monosilane and solar panels will work on the EU market in accordance with these standards, which will also contribute to the organisation of the production of solar panels and monosilane with a minimal carbon footprint. Also, our technology is circular, absolutely waste-free, and within one cycle it is possible to produce not only monosilane and solar panels but also environmentally friendly products with high added value from waste products of the technology. The EU has adopted an action plan for the transition to a circular economy, and our technology is a contribution to the transition to a circular economy. The Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) adopted by the European Commission is also one of the key parts of the European Green Deal, which means that the transition to a circular economy aims to reduce pressure on natural resources. This means the Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) is essential to achieving the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality target and halting biodiversity loss. Our technology eliminates chlorine and its compounds, helping to reduce pressure on natural resources and reducing the risk of air, water, and soil pollution. This promotes environmental conservation and healthy ecosystems.

And finally, there is one more important question for us. Our high, not only environmental, but also humanitarian and ethical standards in the production of solar panels and raw materials for them are another of our key values: We attach great importance to ensuring justice and respect for human rights in all aspects of our activities, especially given the sad Soviet experience our region endured: For many years, starting from the era of Stalinism, the entire period of the existence of the Soviet regime, and until recently, the region of Central Asia, including our country, faced the problems of forced labour, especially in agriculture, and what is especially terrible—more than 80% of those subjected to forced labour were prisoners, as well as women and children. Recently, the government of Uzbekistan decided to ban all forms of forced labour, and we support this decision. We are convinced that the green transition and the fight against climate change must be freed from all forms of unethical and inhumane behavior. However, it is common knowledge that a number of Chinese manufacturing plants located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are facing allegations of human rights violations. This Chinese region produces up to 40% of the world’s production of monosilane.

International human rights organisations document the use of forced labour, including cases of child labour and the labour of political prisoners, in these factories. We welcome the recent decision of the European Parliament to ban the sale on the European market of products produced using forced labor. In turn, we are committed to maintaining high ethical standards and call on the global community to have zero tolerance for violations of human rights and freedoms in the production of raw materials for renewable energy sources, including solar panels. We are confident that the introduction of our innovative technology in Europe will help reduce the dependence on the European market and, in the future, reduce the dependence of other markets on the Chinese monopoly in the production of monosilane and solar panels, which in turn will help protect the production of monosilane and solar panels from human rights violations related to the use of forced labor. Our technology therefore meets the highest technical and environmental requirements, as well as the highest humanitarian and ethical standards. We believe the world must act as one to combat climate change, and our company is committed to being part of this movement. Our patented innovative technology makes a significant contribution to the development of solar energy in Europe, to ensuring a green transition, to the development of a circular economy, as well as to ensuring energy security and competitiveness of Europe in the production of raw materials for solar panels, as well as in the production of solar panels against the background of China’s growing monopoly in this area. In conclusion, our technology extends beyond solar panel manufacturing. Monosilane is used in various industries, including semiconductors, displays, and medical technology. Wherever monosilane is needed, our innovative solution can be seamlessly integrated to make a significant impact.

Our technology is not only effective for small and medium-sized businesses but can also be seamlessly integrated into large-scale production facilities that use monosilane and can have a substantial impact.

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