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BIPV no refuge

Deployment in the building integrated PV segment is accelerating, and so too are the number of solar products available to architects and developers. And while BIPV had long been the segment in which an array of thin-film technologies could shine, they are now in increasingly stiff competition with crystalline silicon rivals.

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Jonathan Gifford

08 Dec 2021

The DEWA R&D center in Dubai incorporates 1,000 m2 of amorphous silicon glass, 100% customized transparency, and six different colors. | Image: Onyx Solar

The Midsummer Wave takes a new approach to solar tiles, with its flexible module covering five roof tiles. In late October, Japanese thin-film PV producer Solar Frontier announced its decision to pull the plug on its CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar module production facility in Kunitomi, southern Japan. The 800 MW production facility had …

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