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Solar May Get Cheaper

SolFocus says that its concentrator photovoltaics will cost only half the price of competing solar PV technologies.
February 16, 2006

The high price of solar panels has slowed the wide-scale adoption of solar energy, but news Thursday that a partnership could make half-priced solar power commercially available in a year may help change the game.

The Palo Alto Research Center is partnering with solar company SolFocus to produce its cheaper concentrator photovoltaic technology. The technology includes small lenses and curved mirrors that concentrate sunlight onto solar cells. The cells use germanium instead of the most common material, silicon.

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