Featured in A sustainable growth? – 07-2013

Glass, reinvented

Solar glass: Thin glass is absolutely critical for glass-glass PV modules, which are gaining in popularity. How thin can the industry go?

The earliest generations of PV modules, first installed in the 1980s, were made by sandwiching the PV layer between two sheets of glass. The durability of such modules cannot be faulted as they are still performing today. Indeed, LiSEC, a leading supplier of equipment for making tempered thin solar glass, in the region of 2 …

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