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CdTe Accelerator Consortium Aims to Reduce Costs, Speed Deployment

Sets aside $20 million to support cadmium telluride R&D for low-carbon thin-film solar technologies.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

This week, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new three-year consortium intended to accelerate the development of cadmium telluride (CdTe) technologies by lowering the cost and increasing the efficiency of the thin-film solar cells. CdTe is the second most common photovoltaic (PV) technology in the world, after silicon. The thin-film technology has achieved a record 22.1% cell efficiency in converting sunlight into electricity and can be manufactured at costs that are competitive wit...

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