More Solar Panels To Be Made In USA, Finally (No, Really!)
The US manufacturer First Solar lays plans for more made-in-USA solar panels, drops hint about solar-friendly policy-making.
The US manufacturer First Solar lays plans for more made-in-USA solar panels, drops hint about solar-friendly policy-making.
By Sam Stranks A new material has entered the emerging low-cost photovoltaics arena and is threatening to blow much of the existing competition away. Power conversion efficiencies (how efficiently incident sunlight is converted to electrical power) in perovskite-based solar cells have increased from a starting point of 3.8% in 2009 to a staggering … [continued]
First Solar may win a contract to supply the solar panels required to construct the world’s largest solar power farm for NextEra Energy Incorporated (NEE). The electricity generation capacity of this plant will be 1,000 MW (1 million kilowatts). NextEra is considering First Solar’s cadmium telluride solar technology for … [continued]
Due to the falling prices of solar panels around the world, General Electric has put its 400 MW cadmium-telluride solar factory in Aurora, Colorado, on hold. This project has been in development for over a year, and was already announced when GE purchased PrimeStar Solar in April 2011. Even … [continued]
GE just made a number of huge solar power announcements….
It is not the world record for ALL solar cells, but for solar cells using certain cheap and highly available materials, IBM has just set a new world record. The world record is for solar cells composed of copper, tin, zinc, sulfur, selenium, or similar materials. The new record is … [continued]