Sunday, July 14, 2013

Thin-Film PV Breakthrough Could Cut Solar Costs by One Quarter

Cadmium telluride solar photovoltaic module (credit: RSI) RSI has broken cover after five years of development to announce it has created a 1.5 square metre cadmium telluride PV (CdTe) module, twice the size of conventional modules.

It says this will enable solar PV modules to be manufactured at a cost of less than 40c/Watt, hastening the charge towards grid parity for solar PV.

Production costs for industry-leading Chinese crystalline-silicon (c-Si) PV module manufacturers were 50 cents per watt in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to a report from GTM Research.

Thin-Film PV Breakthrough Could Cut Solar Costs by One Quarter


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