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Tag Archives: Cadmium Telluride
First Solar Won the Race; The Environment Lost – First Solar Panel recycling now the system owner’s responsibility. It cost the DOE at the very least $0.20/watt to encapsulate the modules in concrete for Abound Solar
In 2011, I wrote about the CdTe Horse Race in which the three US companies making cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) modules, First Solar (FSLR), Abound Solar and General Electric (GE Solar, stock ticker GE) jostled for position. Abound and GE were challenging … Continue reading
Doping boosts efficiency of CdTe cell: Empa study
Scientists at the Empa Institute in Switzerland claim to have achieved 11.5% conversion efficiency for a CdTe solar cell by doping it with copper. The researchers improved on previous results of around 8% by using high-vacuum copper evaporation on substrate … Continue reading
Posted in Cells & Modules, PV, Renewables, Thin Film
Tagged Cadmium Telluride, cell, Copper, Empa, Solar Cell, Switzerland, Thin film solar cell
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First Solar buys GE’s CdTe thin-film IP and forms business partnership
GE announced the location of its first thin-film plant in October 2011 which would have a nameplate capacity of 400MW and start commercial shipments in 2013. The facility was at the core of a US$600 million investment in entering the … Continue reading
Thin film CdTe PV breakthrough may cut solar costs by one third to lower than 40 $ cents
A new Silicon Valley developer of thin film solar PV modules, backed by an Australian venture capitalist, has claimed an engineering breakthrough that could cut the manufacturing costs of PV modules by one third. RSI has broken cover after five … Continue reading
Current Solar Module Efficiency Nowhere Near Its Potential, Especially Thin-Film Solar & CPV (Chart)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Director Dan Arvizu recently gave a keynote speech during the 2013 International Renewable Energy Conference (part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week), which I was lucky enough to attend*. His speech covered a large variety of cleantech topics, and most of … Continue reading
Posted in Cells & Modules, CPV, Crystalline, PV, Solar, Thin Film
Tagged a-Si, Cadmium Telluride, Concentrated photovoltaics, CPV, First Solar, Japan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, national renewable energy laboratory nrel, NREL, renewable energy laboratory, Solar Panel, Thin film, Thin film solar cell, thin film solar panels
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NREL verifies First Solar’s 16.1% total area module efficiency record leap
Easily surpassing its previous record of 14.4% efficiency, First Solar a pushed the bar to 16.1%. Importantly, the CdTe thin-film leader also set a record for open circuit voltage (VOC), reaching an NREL verified 903.2 millivolts (mV). First Solar … Continue reading
Posted in Cells & Modules, PV, Solar, Thin Film
Tagged Cadmium Telluride, CdTe, Chief technology officer, First Solar, national renewable energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL, Perrysburg Ohio, renewable energy laboratory, solar cell efficiency, United States Department of Energy, VOC
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First Solar to manufacture copper-based crystalline silicon solar cells
TetraSun’s cell concept is based on what the company has termed “a novel surface passivation technology”. It enables the use of 40um wide copper electrodes instead of screen-printed silver metallization. Without demanding special equipment for the manufacturing process, cell Voc … Continue reading
Posted in Cells & Modules, Crystalline, PV, Renewables
Tagged Cadmium Telluride, copper electrodes, First Solar, Japan, NASDAQ, pv demonstration, Solar Cell, SunPower, TetraSun, thin film technology, Toshiba
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First Solar may recycle 100,000 Abound Solar CdTe panels at a cost of US$2.2m to avoid environmental fallout
First Solar, the world’s leading CdTe thin film manufacturer, has been recycling its products since 2005. Abram said that process can now recover 95% of the semi-conductor material and 90% of the glass. First Solar has said that it has … Continue reading