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Last week I got the great opportunity to work with the American Solar Energy Society at the Intersolar conference and expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. This event was truly my first experience with the solar industry, and I learned a great deal about the industry and the people involved - as [...]

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Sunrgi, based in Hollywood, California, has introduced a concentrated integrated solar cell system that may make distributed solar cost-effective across a huge swath of land in the US. The panels, named XCPV (standing for Xtreme Concentrated PhotoVoltaics). According to cofounder Robert Block of Sunrgi, “We expect the SUNRGI system to become available for both on [...]

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The New York times published an article yesterday stating that public land solar projects will undergo a two year moratorium while environmental effects are studied. According to the article, the Bureau for Land Management has received over 130 proposals in the last 3 years, and the Bureau simply can’t keep pace with the growth in [...]

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I’ve realized, in only the last few weeks of research, that there’s a great deal of “hype” surrounding the solar industry today. In once sense, there seems to be a strong push towards solar - news articles crop up every day about new investments, new technology, new companies, and new prospects for this industry. But [...]

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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 [...]

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