More than 1,000,000 U.S. properties and organizations have gone solar, and in 2016 the market is expected to nearly double. Saudi Arabia also has lots of sand rich in silicon, necessary to make higher top quality polysilicon solar cells and has already announced partnerships with Germany and South Korea to produce up to 10,000 tonnes of further pure polysilicon for solar cell production per year.
Just as it seemed that the mega fossil fuel producers of coal, all-natural gas and oil would drive Planet Earth more than the carbon cliff, key improvements in the efficiency of solar power, in tandem with advances in the sustainability of properties, workplaces and cities, has at final opened a compact window of opportunity to reverse the slide to oblivion.
Solar Film Surface Coatings- solar power generating surface coatings working with nanotechnology- permitting windows and glazed surfaces to be applied as luminescent solar concentrators, with thin films absorbing sunlight and directing it to narrow solar cells at the perimeter of windows.
The item of over a year of work, and garnering help from Maine’s public advocate (whose job is to maintain prices low for Maine ratepayers), CMP and Emera, and a wide coalition of solar advocates, LD1649 is the ideal legislation at the suitable time for Maine to take benefit of the power saving and economy boosting potential of solar energy.
Though the theoretical added benefits of CdTe and other thin film technologies have lengthy been recognized, Initial Solar’s profitable scale up demonstrates the actual production of higher efficiency CdTe modules in volume, transitioning the technology from the development” to growth” phase.
