I just caught a great article from Reuters UK titled, “As energy costs soar, America looks to solar“. This article provides a ton of information about the market dynamics that may make solar technology - as well as other renewable and “alternative” forms of energy extremely viable in the coming years.
It’s exciting to watch this [...]
A foreign perspective on American solar
June 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: · ascent solar technologies, crystalline silicon, evergreen solar, grid parity, solar, solar capacity, sunpower, thin-film, tom werner
Some Solar Industry Jargon
June 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Looking around at some solar industry sites, I’ve realized there’s quite a bit of jargon and shorthand that I don’t fully understand yet. Overall, a cell’s crystalinity is a description of the amount of order within the cell, so a high-level of order yields a higher level of crystalinity.
Crystal-Si: Crystalline Silicon - Single Crystalline Silicon [...]
Tags: · amorphous silicon, cells, crystal-si, crystalline silicon, EERE, nano-crystalline, photovoltaic, pv, Ribbon-si, solar, thin-film solar