First Solar, Inc. set a world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) PV solar cell conversion efficiency, achieving 20.4% conversion efficiency certified at the Newport Corp.’s Technology and Applications Center (TAC) PV Lab. The record-setting cell, confirmed by the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), was constructed at the company’s Perrysburg, Ohio factory and Research & Development Center.
This certified result bests the previous record of 19.6% conversion efficiency set by GE Global Research in 2013. Last April, First Solar and GE announced a solar technology partnership in which First Solar acquired GE’s CdTe solar intellectual property and secured a collaborative research partnership with GE’s R&D team. The partnership was formed to accelerate innovation in PV technology and accelerate solar module performance at manufacturing scale.
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