US Space Solar Startup Readies “Radiation-Hardened” Solar Cells For Mass Production
The US startup Solestial is banking on ultra-thin, self-repairing silicon solar technology for an edge in the red hot space solar race.
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How Low (& How Green) Can Solar Cells Go? The Magic Word Is Kerfless
The silicon wafer NexWafe says buh-bye kerf, hello low-cost, lightweight, flexible solar cells.
Offshore Financial Fraud May Bring Down World’s Largest Solar PV Supplier, China’s Suntech
A prosecutor in the southern Italian city of Brindisi has filed criminal charges against Suntech and its Global Solar Fund, adding to a growing list of criminal and civil charges that could destroy the company. The charges follow on revelation of an alleged $700 million investment fraud perpetrated by GSF that implicates Suntech senior executives. […]
CIGS Thin Film Solar PV Starts 2012 Off on the Good Foot with Solar Frontier-EDF…
2012 may well shape up as a pivotal year for CIGS thin film solar PV technology. Japan’s Solar Frontier, the world’s largest manufacturer of thin-film CIGS solar PV modules, has closed a deal to supply EDF Energies Nouvelles’ enXco with as much as 150-MWp of CIGS modules for use in the latter’s 100+ MW Catalina Solar Project in Kern County, California.
SCHOTT Solar Achieves Nearly 20% PV Efficiency Using New Fabrication Technology
SCHOTT Solar is producing silicon solar PV cells with nearly 20% efficiency at comparatively low cost using a combination of innovative technologies that promise to drive the cost of manufacturing solar photovoltaic cells, and the cost of producing electricity from solar energy, further down the curve.
