Featured in Head pointed toward the sun – 10-2013

Playing it safe

Crystalline silicon solar technologies: Industry talk has often been of a transition to high efficiency solar cell concepts but the PV market that exists today is risk averse, understandably, with standard modules made of polysilicon continuing to dominate.

Middle-of-the-road is a phrase often used disparagingly, from its association with safe, central positions in politics to the more dire output of 1970s pop music. But it probably best sums up the global photovoltaics market right now in terms of the multicrystalline silicon (multi c-Si) technology that dominates and the type of modules that have …

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