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MiaSolé Sets Flexible CIGS Efficiency Record
We’ve been keeping a tally of recent record-setting solar cell and module achievements. We’re now adding MiaSolé’s 15.5 percent efficiency mark for a flexible CIGS solar cell. Note that this is an aperture-area efficiency on a commercial-size flexible PV module with a total area of 1.68 square meters. That eclipses the 13.4 percent mark recently [...]
MiaSole Grabs $55 Million
In a tough time for a solar company – especially a thin-film manufacturer – to raise money, MiaSole raised another $55 million to drive its next wave of growth. The company says it’s begun production of modules rated at 14% conversion efficiency, an increase of 30% over the past year. It says it has the industry’s lowest capex per watt because of [...]
MiaSolé Announces Layoffs
MiaSolé, the Kleiner Perkins- and Vantage Point-backed CIGS solar company, has laid off 30 percent of its workforce, according to sources close to the company. A company spokesperson has verified that there have been layoffs, but did not specify the extent of the reduction-in-force. We understand that many of the layoffs have occurred in engineering [...]
Is there Something Brewing at MiaSolé? $INTC
MiaSolé, a CIGS thin-film solar manufacturer that is not Solyndra, has just had a management adjustment. We have learned from several dependable sources, in and out of the company, that the Intel influence in the company is to become even more prominent. Joseph Laia will retain his CEO title for the time being, abeit in [...]
MiaSole Deploys Camstar
Camstar Systems Inc. announced that MiaSole, the leading manufacturer of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solarpanels, has deployed Camstar’s SolarSuite enterprise software platformthroughout its entire solar manufacturing value chain. As anindustry innovator, MiaSole is growing rapidly, and the scalablemanufacturing platform enables the company to shorten time-to-volume,improve product quality and reliability, and rapidly develop, [...]
MiaSolé Prepping for 2011 IPO
We’ve received a document published by Pittsburgh’s Birchmere Ventures, an investor in copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) manufacturerMiaSolé. It outlines the company’s $100 million fundraising round, itsproduct plans, and its 2011 IPO plans. According to the the document, "MiaSolé is now raising a $100 million Series F round to build out manufacturing and prepare for [...]
Miasole Signs Deal to Ship 7.5 MW of CIGS to Germany
MiaSole, which makes copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solarmodules, has signed a contract to deliver 7.5 megawatts of panels tojuwi Solar in Germany. The panels will be placed on roofs and in theground at utility-scale solar parks in that country. MiaSole delivered 1 MW to juwi in the second quarter. The company is one of [...]
MiaSole Moves Into Production
MiaSolé,a company without a sign on its front door to minimize industrialespionage, has cleared the big hump for CIGS manufacturers: shippingsolar panels to customers. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company–which has maintained a lowprofile in the market for the last year and a half–started to send itssolar panels to customers for them to check out the [...]
MiaSolé Begins Shipping CIGS Panels
Ayear ago, MiaSolé appeared to still be struggling mightily to bring itsthin-film panels to the market. After keeping a low profile for most ofthis year, the startup said it has crossed that all-important milestone. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said it not only has startedshipping to 30 customer sites in Europe and the United States, [...]