On October 22, 2009
Can AQT Take a Thin-Film Solar Shortcut?
Earlier this week, I spoke with the CEO of a thin-film solar startup called AQT Solar (Applied Quantum Technology), which is slowly coming out of stealth. AQT is a little different from your average solar newbie; instead of claiming a technology breakthrough, the company says its main innovation is a new business model. The brief version of this is that AQT claims it can focus on just manufacturing thin-film CIGS cells, then pass those on to other companies, who will do the industrial work of putting them into existing solar module equipment that was developed for more expensive standard silicon cells. Today’s existing CIGS companies by and large take the opposite approach. Companies like Nanosolar and Solyndra have worked for…
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