Lower Solar Cost and Higher Efficiency is "Gift from the Sun" (Energy Priorities)

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)

Denis Du Bois
April 22, 2008

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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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