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systems in excess of 10 MW. Their project portfolio exceeds 30 MW, exclusively in the French market at the time being. For 2011, Nazca contemplates international development.
Solyndra designs and manufactures solar photovoltaic systems for the large commercial rooftop market. Using proprietary cylindrical modules and thin-film technology, Solyndra systems are lightweight and non-penetrating, and the fastest and easiest to install solar panels for rooftop applications. This allows Solyndra to achieve the lowest system installation costs on a per watt basis for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra manufactures its rooftop solar panels and unique greenhouse solar system in the United States and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
QuantaSol Moves into Pilot Production
The UK based startup has successfully provided potential customers with samples and hopes its triple junction solar cells will take off.
QuantaSol, an independent designer and manufacturer of tunable ultra high efficiency concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) solar cells, is moving into pilot production following a successful period of global customer sampling.
QuantaSol’s technology, based on adding multiple quantum wells to triple junction solar cells, greatly enhances photovoltaic conversion efficiency and offers system manufacturers a route to achieving breakthrough improvements in the performance of their CPV system whilst driving down the cost per kWh.
The company has been sampling with customers across Europe, Asia and the USA for several months, and has worked closely with leading system vendors to enhance their systems by maximizing energy harvest.
Chris Shannon, QuantaSol’s CEO commented, “Our technology has always been focused on achieving maximum efficiency and power output in real-world conditions, and this has been pivotal in moving forward from the lab stage towards
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production. Working with some of the best in the industry, we have been able to demonstrate genuine advantages in cost per kWh terms and this is a positive achievement for the solar industry.”
To date, QuantaSol has successfully accumulated an order book of more than 1MW of cells, and these will be delivered through the first half of 2011.
Thin-Film Photovoltaic Market To Hit $5.9 Billion in 2016
Nanomarkets says that the TFPV materials markets will generate $5.9 billion ($US) in 2016 compared to $2.1 billion in 2011.
NanoMarkets, a provider of market research in the thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV) space, has just published its latest report on the markets for materials sold for TFPV applications.
According to the report “Thin-Film Photovoltaics Materials Markets, 2011 and Beyond,” despite the end of the silicon shortage and ongoing economic woes, the TFPV materials markets will generate $5.9 billion ($US) in 2016 compared to $2.1 billion in 2011.
The report is part of NanoMarkets ongoing coverage of thin-film and organic PV markets and includes its latest projections on material sales for thin-film silicon (TF Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe) and CIGS PV. Additional details for the report are available at
www.nanomarkets.net. Press executive summaries are available upon request.
NanoMarkets believes that, despite its maturity, TF Si PV will retain its competitiveness as this technology shifts towards using tandem cells using microcrystalline silicon. Key beneficiaries of this shift will be silane suppliers. Revenues from TF Si PV absorber materials will reach approximately $975 million by 2016.
However, also by 2016 the largest segment of the TFPV material sector will be CdTe absorber materials, which, by then, will reach $1.6 billion. This represents an important opportunity for suppliers of CdTe materials to qualify as a supplier
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