FIRST SOLAR'S BETTER CDTE EFFICIENCY

First Solar Sets New CdTe Efficiency Record
17 January 2012 (Solar Industry)

"First Solar, Inc., claims it has set a new world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic solar module efficiency, achieving 14.4% total area efficiency. The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) confirmed the record, which eclipsed [First Solar’s prior record-setting] 13.4%..."

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"The record-setting product was constructed using commercial-scale manufacturing equipment and materials at the company's Perrysburg, Ohio, factory. First Solar…updated its module efficiency road map in December 2011 to the increased goal of 14.5% to 15% average efficiency for its production modules by the end of 2015, and the process improvements developed for the record-setting cell and module continue to be implemented…"