One year on from its launch, the CSEM Photovoltaics Center is looking back on a very positive first year and confident about the future of solar energy. The objectives of the Photovoltaics Center (or PV-center), which has received financing of CHF 19 million from the Swiss Confederation for 2013-16, are to accelerate the industrialization process, develop new generations of PV cells and modules, and support the transition to a national energy system in which solar electricity will play a vital r...