Oerlikon Solar Launches €0.50 per Watt Thin Film Line (Spain)

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http://www.solarbuzz.com/News/NewsEUMA348.htm

Oerlikon Solar launched today the new production line “ThinFab” for manufacturing thin film silicon modules, which will achieve record breaking production costs of €0.50 per Watt peak (Wp).

Furthermore, Oerlikon Solar developed a new champion Micromorph® lab cell in cooperation with Corning Incorporated with 11.9 percent stabilized efficiency confirmed by the honorable U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The two world records boost the competitiveness of Oerlikon Solar Micromorph® thin film silicon technology and demonstrate its future potential.

“Our achievements could become a breakthrough for thin film silicon technology,” says Michael Buscher, Oerlikon Group CEO. “We are proud that our new ThinFab offers a highly competitive production line to the solar market and that we could verify further potential of our technology.”

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The ThinFab reduces the energy payback-time of thin film silicon modules below one year, with the lowest energy consumption for photovoltaic production plants in the industry.

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[sakabatou]

1. Awesome!

[kristopher]

2. K&R

[OnlinePoker]

3. Too bad I don't live where solar would work very well

All these advances and I can't take advantage of them.