{"id":699791,"date":"2010-03-24T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2010-03-24T15:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T19:20:35","slug":"ge-getting-into-thin-film-solar-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/699791","title":{"rendered":"GE getting into thin-film solar field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This can only mean advances in production and manufacturing coupled with a likely cost reduction. A win for the field since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/24851\/?nlid=2841\" >GE is going to bring to bear its corporate might on process improvements<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gepower.com\/prod_serv\/products\/solar\/en\/index.htm\" >GE<\/a> has confirmed long-standing speculation that it plans to make\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/energy\/23030\/\" >thin-film solar panels<\/a> that use a cadmium- and tellurium-based semiconductor to capture light and convert it into electricity. The GE move could put pressure on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/business\/19095\/\" >the only major<\/a> cadmium-telluride solar-panel maker, Tempe, AZ-based\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstsolar.com\/en\/index.php\" >First Solar<\/a>, which could drive down prices for solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, GE seemed to be getting out of the solar industry as it sold off crystalline-silicon solar-panel factories it had acquired in 2004. The company found that the market for such solar panels&#8211;which account for most of the solar panels sold worldwide&#8211;was too competitive for a relative newcomer, says Danielle Merfeld, GE&#8217;s solar technology platform leader.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7146\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This can only mean advances in production and manufacturing coupled with a likely cost reduction. A win for the field since GE is going to bring to bear its corporate might on process improvements. From the link: GE has confirmed long-standing speculation that it plans to make\u00a0thin-film solar panels that use a cadmium- and tellurium-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2W2X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}