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What Happened to the Thin Film Solar Market?
There is no thin-film solar market. There’s First Solar with cadmium telluride (CdTe), Solar Frontier with CIGS, and until recently Sharp in amorphous silicon (a-Si), with a few smaller players following behind. There are also a few companies looking at very thin c-Si, such as Twin Creeks or 1366 Technologies. In cadmium telluride materials, [...]
SpectraWatt Declares Bankruptcy
Last year, we wrote about how SpectraWatt, a solar spin-off from Intel, laid off most of its employees and shut its doors. This week, it filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. Think of that as the sequel. SpectraWatt blamed market conditions for the bankruptcy filing, but there’s more to the story than that. Last year, it [...]