Comments on: Nanosolar rolls out first production thin-film solar cells

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:47:29 +0000

re: installation costs (RC); I’d imagine unrolling a thin film panel to be substantially cheaper than installing brittle silicon panels. Just a thought.

By: Nanosolar gets yet more funding for production — next up, an IPO? » VentureBeat

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:18:22 +0000

[...] that wants it to churn out cells more quickly. Nanosolar’s cells, which the company only started producing in December, are among the cheapest on the market, which is reason enough for the company to continue [...]

By: MIT spin-out aims to make silicon-based solar competitive with coal by 2012 » VentureBeat

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:45:26 +0000

[...] companies that make thin-film cells like First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) and Nanosolar (coverage here) are working on their own process improvements, and it’s difficult to tell when breakthroughs [...]

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Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:00:23 +0000

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By: RC

RC — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:05:05 +0000

While cost per watt for the cell itself may be cheaper than the alternate solar technology it fails to take into account the add space requirements. At 1/3 the efficiency of high end solar cells the installation area and manpower will be increased by 60%. This will certainly add to the cost of an installation and is by no means trivial.