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09-10-2009, 06:47 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg Nanosolar, a California start-up, says it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its printable photovoltaic cells. (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/41-billion-in-orders-for-thin-film-solar/)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Nano_Solar_Panels.jpgTodd Woody - BLOGS (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) - September 9, 2009
Is this the cheap and renewable energy source we've been looking for? --Ed.
Since its founding in 2002, Nanosolar has raised a lot of money – half a billion dollars to date – and made a lot of noise about upending the solar industry, but the Silicon Valley start-up has been a bit vague on specifics about why it’s the next big green thing.
On Wednesday, Nanosolar pulled back the curtain on its thin-film photovoltaic cell technology — which it claims is more efficient and less expensive than that of industry leader First Solar — and announced that it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its solar panels.
Martin Roscheisen, Nanosolar’s chief executive, said customers included solar power plant developers like NextLight, AES Solar and Beck Energy of Germany.
The typical Nanosolar farm will be between 2 and 20 megawatts in size, Mr. Roscheisen said in an e-mail message from Germany, where he was attending the opening of Nanosolar’s new factory near Berlin. “This is a sweet spot in terms of ease of permitting and distributed deployment without having to tax the transmission infrastructure.”
Nanosolar, based in San Jose, Calif., has developed a solar cell made from copper indium gallium (di)selenide. The semiconducting materials and nanoparticles are contained within a proprietary ink that makes it possible to print flexible solar cells on rolls of cheap aluminum foil.
(For those interested in the nitty-gritty details of Nansolar’s technology and production process, the company’s white paper (http://www.nanosolar.com/media-room/whitepapers/NanosolarCellWhitePaper.pdf) provides is a... http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/41-billion-in-orders-for-thin-film-solar/
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Nano_Solar_Panels.jpgTodd Woody - BLOGS (http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) - September 9, 2009
Is this the cheap and renewable energy source we've been looking for? --Ed.
Since its founding in 2002, Nanosolar has raised a lot of money – half a billion dollars to date – and made a lot of noise about upending the solar industry, but the Silicon Valley start-up has been a bit vague on specifics about why it’s the next big green thing.
On Wednesday, Nanosolar pulled back the curtain on its thin-film photovoltaic cell technology — which it claims is more efficient and less expensive than that of industry leader First Solar — and announced that it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its solar panels.
Martin Roscheisen, Nanosolar’s chief executive, said customers included solar power plant developers like NextLight, AES Solar and Beck Energy of Germany.
The typical Nanosolar farm will be between 2 and 20 megawatts in size, Mr. Roscheisen said in an e-mail message from Germany, where he was attending the opening of Nanosolar’s new factory near Berlin. “This is a sweet spot in terms of ease of permitting and distributed deployment without having to tax the transmission infrastructure.”
Nanosolar, based in San Jose, Calif., has developed a solar cell made from copper indium gallium (di)selenide. The semiconducting materials and nanoparticles are contained within a proprietary ink that makes it possible to print flexible solar cells on rolls of cheap aluminum foil.
(For those interested in the nitty-gritty details of Nansolar’s technology and production process, the company’s white paper (http://www.nanosolar.com/media-room/whitepapers/NanosolarCellWhitePaper.pdf) provides is a... http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/41-billion-in-orders-for-thin-film-solar/