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the sustainable use of natural resources, and are proven for their effectiveness and economic viability. Our joint collaboration to develop various solar energy solutions for TERI’s rural electrification projects including its flagship ‘Lighting a Billion Lives’ based on solar technology provides us with a unique opportunity to grow our market share in India. Our unique, light-weight, ruggedized, high power density thin-film CIGS modules enable ease of installation, handling and transport that are an ideal solution for LaBL and other programs like it.”
A dynamic and flexible organization, TERI was established in 1974. While in the initial period the focus was mainly on documentation and information dissemination activities, research activities in the fields of energy, environment and sustainable development were initiated towards the end of 1982. The genesis of these activities lay in TERI’s firm belief that efficient utilization of energy, sustainable use of natural resources, large– scale adoption of renewable energy technologies and reduction of all forms of waste would move the process of development towards the goal of sustainability.
All activities in TERI move from formulating local and national level strategies to suggesting global solutions to critical energy and environment- related issues. It is with this purpose that TERI has established regional centres in Bangalore, Goa, and Guwahati, and a presence in Japan, Malaysia, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates. It has also set up affiliate institutes: TERI–NA (The Energy and Resources Institute, North America) Washington DC, USA, and TERI–Europe in London, UK.
Ascent Solar is a developer of thin-film photovoltaic modules with substrate materials that can be more flexible and affordable than most traditional solar panels. Its modules can be directly integrated into standard building materials, commercial transportation, automotive solutions, space applications, consumer electronics for portable power or configured as stand-alone modules for large scale terrestrial deployment. Ascent Solar is headquartered in Thornton, Colorado, U.S.A.
XsunX’s CIGSolar Device Achieves 15.09% Conversion Efficiency
The firm says it has taken a different path to the rest of the CIGS industry by focusing on replacing the multi-billion dollar supply chain of silicon photovoltaic (PV) technologies with its CIGSolar modules.
XsunX, a developer of advanced, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, has achievedCIGS conversion efficiency of 15.09%.
Only aweek ago XsunX reported successfully fabricating cell devices based upon the Company’s CIGSolar technology that surpassed 14 % conversion efficiency.
The firm says that achieving these high efficiencies in the relatively short period of time since the addition of thermal co-evaporation to its CIGS process underscores its assertion that small- area, co-evaporation production provides the best platform to deliver the highest efficiency CIGS based solar cells necessary to compete with, and potentially replace, silicon photovoltaic (PV) technologies.
XsunX is very excited with these results and its next goal is to deliver a better manufacturing solution and use for CIGS. The firm says it has taken a different path to the rest of the CIGS industry by focusing on identifying a large opportunity: the replacement of silicon within an existing multi-billion dollar supply chain.
The firm says it is not focused on trying to do the same thing better than the competition in the CIGS thin-film arena as it does not believe that there are significant gains to be achieved for the use of CIGS by simply spending more time trying to improve the limitations to current thin-film manufacturing techniques, or product design.
The firm stresses it does not believe all other CIGS solutions will fail, and that virtually all markets have numerous suppliers competing on different levels or within different segments of a market. The
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