Lower Solar Cost and Higher Efficiency is "Gift from the Sun"

Suniva's investors have put US $55 million of venture capital into a startup whose technology promises to achieve high efficiencies with low-cost monocrystalline silicon solar cells. Denis Du Bois interviews founder and solar pioneer Ajeet Rohatgi about the future of the PV industry and the meaning of his company's name. (podcast)
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Dr. Rohatgi is following 30 years of pioneering solar research with a startup of his own. His goal: cost parity with coal power from the grid. He discusses the cost targets and how Suniva could get there; why the silicon shortage worries him, but thin-film competition doesn't; India and China; and Suniva's new plant in Atlanta GA. Dr. Rohatgi tells me Suniva (pronounced sun-EVE-a) means "gift from the sun."

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By Denis Du Bois on April 22, 2008 at Energy Priorities