Mass Production of Plastic Solar Cells

A novel photovoltaic technology moves into large-scale production.

In a significant milestone in the deployment of flexible, printed photovoltaics, Konarka http://www.konarka.com/ , a solar-cell startup based in Lowell, MA, has opened a commercial-scale factory, with the capacity to produce enough organic solar cells every year to generate one gigawatt of electricity, the equivalent of a large nuclear reactor.

By Kevin Bullis

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