Since CIGS requires a layer 100 times thinner than conventional silicon solar systems, a few dollars’ worth of CIGS raw ingredients can deliver the same power as a hundred dollars’ worth of silicon wafers.
Industry analysts project that building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) systems will represent the fastest-growing segment of the photovoltaic market over the next decade.
HelioVolt’s FASST™ technology produces high-performance solar thin-film with pioneering time and materials efficiencies. 10 to 100 times faster than current processes. 100 times thinner than traditional silicon.
Powered by $77 million in new investment, startup Heliovolt, based in Austin, TX, will build a factory next year for mass-producing a new type of solar cell that could, in much of the United States, make solar electricity as cheap as electricity from the