https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/12/georgia-adion-solar-500-mw/ Covering the world of solar power technology, development and installation. Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/12/georgia-adion-solar-500-mw/#comment-138615 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:11:35 +0000 https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/?p=100789#comment-138615 ADION Solar may do well in the commercial solar PV panel market, but since “new technology” (C3) is coming, they may still lose out to entities like Trina Solar, Longi on the price per panel in large manufacturing contracts of 100,000 to 1,000,000 solar PV panels per manufacturing run. The commercial market is starting to become more populated with large commercial and utility solar PV panels, someone’s going to have to lose sooner or later. Protectionism is not going to insure U.S. manufactured solar PV panels will survive Chinese and technology reductions in solar PV cell prices and solar PV panel assembly costs overall. Spray on band gap tuned Perovskites as cheap tandem solar PV panels with 30% or more solar harvest efficiency. May become the only threat to Chinese solar PV panel supremacy World wide. Cut out a chunk of the energy needed to get polysilicon from the foundry, go to the manufacturing that does the crystal pulling, cutting into wafers, in some cases laser annealing, doping wafers and then assembling the wafers into solar cells for a panel. Cut out all of the foundry work and spray on Perovskites made with nano-Perovskites to grab more of the light spectrum to create more power per square meter from each panel. There are levorotatory and dextrorotatory chemical derivatives that could be laid out to capture more light for power conversion. Having a spray on process on glass and using two glass sheets then fusing the edges from air and moisture becoming entrained could be the magic bullet to leaving energy intensive crystalline solar PV cells and panels behind. I believe First Solar has a process similar to this where it manufactures their CdTe solar PV panels using spray on techniques and fusing glass sheets to make their frameless solar PV panels now. This is how the U.S. beats China in cost and efficiency in the solar PV panel market World wide.

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