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Thin-Film Solar Manufacturing Plant Slated for
Northern Colorado
September 7, 2007
AVA Solar, Inc. in Fort Collins announced plans
this week to build a solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing plant in
northern Colorado. AVA Solar was founded earlier this year by
researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) as a spin-off of
their research at CSU.
The AVA manufacturing plant will use thin-films of
cadmium telluride (CdTe) to create PV modules. CdTe thin films
require less than 1% of the material that silicon PV modules require
to generate the same electricity. However, thin-film PV modules are
usually less efficient than modules made from crystalline silicon,
which is the standard for today's PV industry.
See the article announcing the new plant in the
September 4 edition of Denver Business Journal
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/09/03/daily5.html?jst=cn_cn_lk
See also an article published the next day in the
September 5 edition of the Denver Post that was written by Steve
Raabe titled "Solar Plant Seen for State."
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6802112
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