Featured in Keep on tracking – 12-2010

The greatest capacity leap in PV history

Interview CIGS: Up to now there has not been very much production of thin film CIGS modules, although their efficiencies are close to those of polycrystalline modules. Wolfgang Lange, Managing Director for Europe of Solar Frontier, explains why this may change next year. His company will soon be manufacturing cadmium and lead free modules in a gigawatt factory.

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Michael Fuhs

15 Dec 2010

In Germany Solar Frontier seems to have appeared out of nowhere with the news that it will sell the modules of its parent company Showa Shell Solar. Showa Shell, on the other hand, commissioned a 900-megawatt factory for thin film CIGS modules that will open next year. Since when have you actually been on the …

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