Working to change the economics of solar energy.

Advocates of alternative energy face an inconvenient, but incontrovertible, fact:

It takes hugely rich government subsidies to make
solar energy cost-competitive with conventional power.

And most people believe it’s going to be that way for many years to come.

We, however, think they’re going to be proven wrong. Because Natcore Technology controls a remarkable new thin-film growth process with two immediate and compelling applications in the solar sector:

  1. It has the potential to reduce silicon usage in solar cell manufacturing by over 60% — thereby dramatically decreasing costs, improving margins and boosting throughput.
  2. It promises to allow, for the first time, mass manufacturing of tandem solar cells with twice the efficiency of the best solar cells available today.

 
 

By KEITH BRADSHER

With erect posture and clear gray eyes, Chuck Provini still looks like the Marine who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1969 and was repeatedly decorated for bravery in Vietnam.

He fumes at strangers who call him a traitor for agreeing to manufacture in Zhuzhou, China, a new solar panel production device that his company developed in the United States.