Featured in Not gone with the wind – 02-2010

The cell doctor

Low-cost modules: Norway’s Innotech Solar repairs short-circuited solar cells that used to end up in smelters. A special laser process is used to repair defective cells, which are then processed into fully functional modules.

People in the northern tip of Norway who think about solar power have to be crusaders. It is cold, and – in the winter at least – the sun does not shine much. In Narvik, Norway, with the mercury at minus four degrees Celsius, product manager Knud Clausen of Innotech Solar is on the move, …

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