The New Style Of Solar Energy Is Thin

The new style of solar energy is thin and thin is in because it is inexpensive.

Solar producers measure their costs in terms of dollars per watt of energy produced, a formula is a combination of the cost of producing a module and its energy efficiency.

At this moment the best crystalline silicon modules can be sold from $ 3 to $ 4 per watt, First Solar can sell at about $ 2.40 per watt, price that the company expects to reduce. “I really have pushed the company to the threshold.” Said Travis Bradford, author of Solar Revolution. “They have a great technology”

But First Solar does not generate the largest buzz. That notoriety belongs to the enterprise Nanosolar, which shocked its competitors in December when it announced that it would be profitable to sell thin-film panels at $ 1 watt. This figure is the Holy Grail of sun, the point at which solar energy is generally cheaper than coal, without the help of subsidies.

The manager Martin Roscheisen main Nanosolar, who, like many solar kings, has its roots in Silicon Valley, says he can achieve radical cost savings by directly applying an ink composed of nano particles. Nanosolar cells Powersheets of wheel machines like pages of newspapers in print, on an average of several hundred feet per minute. Roscheisen, intensive Austrian said that the first 18 months of production of Nanosolar have already been purchased. “We share the market by 35% in the coming years,” he said. “The truth is that we can climb a lot more products for less.”

Roscheisen competitors, and puts them in a gentle way, doubt his claims, noting that the cost of raw material would be impossible to produce panels cost $ 1 per watt. “Of course I doubt,” he said. “Otherwise, their model would be a joke.”

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