Canadian Solar to ship 30-40MW of metallurgical grade silicon modules in 2008 - 13 May 2008
Metallurgical solar-grade silicon could reshape PV industry, says PHOTON Consulting - 09 May 2008
Sunovia claims lab breakthrough for commercialization of single crystalline epitaxial CdTe/Si - 12 May 2008
SunPower claims new 23.4 percent solar cell efficiency record - 12 May 2008
SunPower to build 1GW scale fab in Malaysia - 19 May 2008
Evergreen Solar passes $1 billion in order backlog from two new supply deals - 22 May 2008
Spire wins another PV module line order from Russia - 22 May 2008
Applied Materials names new head of Strategic Operations - 22 May 2008
Praxair to supply bulk gases to XsunX - 21 May 2008
Photon Consulting starts solar grade silicon price index - 20 May 2008
SunPower
Corporation has said that its Gen 3 solar cell technology that is
currently under development has reached cell efficiencies of 23.4
percent using standard five-inch wafers. SunPower claims that this is a
new world record for a large area solar cell.
"This is a step function increase from our 22 percent efficient Gen 2 technology, which has been in mass production since last year," said Tom Werner, CEO of SunPower Corp. "Credit for this achievement goes to our world- class research and development team led by Dick Swanson and Bill Mulligan, as well as to our talented engineering group."
"We are pleased to have demonstrated early success with our Gen 3 technology," said Bill Mulligan, Vice President of technology and development at SunPower Corporation. "This record efficiency solar cell, which is expected to be commercially available in approximately two years, extends SunPower's leadership position and is a key component of our plan to reduce system cost by 50 percent by the year 2012."
The company expects its Gen 3 solar cell technology to enter mass production in 2 years. Currently, its Gen 2 technology has cell efficiencies of 22 percent.
