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Startup Solyndra uses CIGS for their solar panels
Published on 9 Mar, 2009 at 14:55 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 3,024 views times | No Comments
Solar startup company Solyndra unveiled for the first time its solar module design for commercial rooftops. The company says its design can cut the cost of installing solar rooftops in half and reduce installation time by a third. The design is made a certain manner. It wraps the photovoltaic copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) compound
Printing solar cells like…. money
Published on 2 Mar, 2009 at 10:29 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 638 views times | No Comments
Printed solar cells is one of the solutions to make solar panels. Like the Nanosolar’s printing machine, there are other initiatives starting to develop. One of them is at CSIRO Australia. Peter Batchelor, announced today the start of printing trials by Securency International, a banknote printing company. “The production of these film-like solar cells will
Round CIGS are more efficient and cheaper
Published on 14 Oct, 2008 at 17:01 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 744 views times | No Comments
Company called Solyndra has invented circular photovoltaic panels. They are seems to be more efficient than traditional solar PV panels and they are easier and cheeper to install too. We know that usually CIGS are not as efficient as photovoltaic systems based on silicon cells. But they are more and more popular, quite a few
Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells
Published on 11 Oct, 2008 at 6:02 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 500 views times | No Comments
Konarka’s advanced photovoltaic technology started with the work of the late Dr. Sukant Tripathy, an internationally known polymer materials scientist, provost at UMASS Lowell and founder of the Plastic Innovation Center and Dr. Alan Heeger, Konarka’s chief scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000. The ground-breaking discoveries from both founding scientists
Signet Solar will start production of thin-film solar panels by the end of this month.
Published on 17 Sep, 2008 at 10:57 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 274 views times | No Comments
Signet Solar expects to begin commercial production of thin-film solar panels by the end of this month, a company executive told Greentch Media this week. Signet plans to begin shipping its films to commercial customers this month and to ramp up its production to full capacity in the next two months, Signet Solar fabricated the
Revolutionary technology of Concentrated solar panels
Published on 16 Sep, 2008 at 6:33 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 920 views times | 3 Comments
Morgan Solar – a company which might have the key for the brigh future. For of us, small users of solar panels. They expecting to divide the costs of fabrication by 4 !!! That’s simply amazing. The magic is the Light-guide Solar Optic (LSO). It’s made of acrylic that concentrates sunlight 750 times and redirects
SoloPower invest $200 milion in thin-film solar cells manufacturing
Published on 13 Sep, 2008 at 13:38 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 309 views times | No Comments
After Nanosolar’s investment of $300 milion this week it is SoloPower which is raising almost $200 million to speed up manufacturing of its thin-film solar cells. SoloPower is based in San Jose, California. The company makes solar cells from CIGS, which is a combination of copper, indium, gallium, and selenide which a number of solar
Nanosolar’s progress developping the CIGS
Published on 6 Sep, 2008 at 5:13 in Solar-thin-film | Viewed 496 views times | 1 Comment
I found it googling – this PDF from Nanosolar’s website explaining actually the progress the firm is making developping hte CIGS technology. It’s called ” High-performance Thin-film photovoltaics using Low-cost process technology “. The paper explaining that the CIGS can can deliver sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies of 19.5%. The paper then explains the different fabrication process
Nanosolar invests $300 milion more to accelerate the production
Published on 31 Aug, 2008 at 13:36 in Solar-thin-film | Viewed 385 views times | 1 Comment
Nanosolar to Accelerate Production One of the companies at the forefront of the fight to make thin-film solar viable is Nanosolar, and they just announced some good news on their blog. They were always well capitalized, but they raised $300 million more to accelerate the expansion of their production capability, bringing their total funding to
Masdar invests US$230 million into German plant to produce thin film PV modules
Published on 27 Aug, 2008 at 16:22 in solar energy, Solar-thin-film | Viewed 240 views times | No Comments
Masdar invests US$230 million into German plant to produce thin film PV modules. The factory will be opened in third quarter 2009, the plant has a targeted annual production capacity of 70MW, and will create more than 180 green jobs. It will produce the world’s largest (5.7 sqauare metres) and most powerful PV modules, on
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