PV-Tech Newscast—January 20, 2012

Mixed sentiments continue to dominate the market reports and news. On one hand, Bloomberg New Energy has found that there was 54% growth in new installations to 28GW in 2011, while on the other, the PV equipment industry seems to be the fall guy as capital spending looks set to take a nose-dive in 2012. But optimism reigns here at PV-Tech, and we're glad to see that there have been lots of thin-film developments in recent days, including Solar Frontier's supply of up to 150MWp of its CIS modules for the largest PV plant of its kind in the world. We've also got a report on the progression of Photowatt's status, and we present Schmid and Schott's new 19.9%-efficient cell. Tune in next week for our report on the Middle East market outlook!

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  • Pan25 April 2012

    Yes, if you had a cigarette lgihter adapter for charging your laptop you could charge your laptop from the panels themselves. If you did that I don’t think it wouldn’t take that long to charge it as you get pretty much a constant 14.5 to 15V of the? panels themselves in sunny weather. There is another way that you can wire your panels and get more volts at one time too. Fubarprotocol has a good video explaining that. Take care.

  • Arief25 April 2012

    It makes a huge difference. I think it has been a great thing to do for me.38us a month here for ellcitrec .we are very conservative. Well then again I gotta tell everybody to turn stuff off all the time!

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