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MiaSolé Wins it Back for Thin Film With 15.7% Efficiency

December 9th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

MiaSolé, in the vanguard of California’s new thin film solar manufacturing start ups, has just made an efficiency advance that

SunPower Ramps Up Production, Soon its Solar Down Near $1 a Watt

November 16th, 2010 | by Susan Kraemer

SunPower has sold out of its solar panels for the rest of this year, and into early 2011, despite a

Prism Makes $1 a Watt Unique Solar Hybrid of Holographic Thin-film Strips AND PV

December 29th, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer

Here is an innovation borne of the need to make solar modules that are more able to capture more sunlight in regions like New York (or Germany) that have relatively low level insolation. Normally that means that it takes more panels to make the same power, which means it simply costs more to make the same electricity in upstate New York than in the Southern California desert