While all eyes in Europe have turned to the solar shindig in Munich, a parallel conference of photovoltaic specialists is being staged across the Pond in Florida.
The 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference started in Tampa on Sunday and runs until Friday.
And there has been an air of quiet confidence at the conference with attendees hearing from keynote speaker Shayle Kann, vice president of research at Greentech Media, on Monday that the solar industry is showing signs of recovery in early 2013 after a tumultuous couple of years.
Howard Branz, of the U.S. government's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), gave details of some of the grid scale renewable energy storage projects the agency is investing in, including improved rechargable alkaline batteries and fly-wheel energy storage.
Wednesday's sessions included reports on technological advances in thin film technology with Kaneka featuring an 11.7% certified initial efficiency total area large triple junction module and LG setting a new record for stabilized cell efficiency with a certified 13.4% aSi-ucSi-ucSi triple junction.
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.