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Clhx pv magazine LIVE video coverage of Solar Power International 2016
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The plant hopes to b stanley cup egin producing modules in 2012 and, when fully ramped, will have a capacity of 400 megwatts MW . This, the company claims, will make it larger than any other solar manufacturing facility in the U.S.Matt Geyette, General Manager of Renewable Energy Strategy at GE, addressed the timing of the announcement, during a period of over-supply in the photovoltaic module market and rapidly falling prices. He said that low cost production at the GE CdTe plant is the key. As we look at all the different technologies out there [聟] the challenge is, when we went into our initial investigation of solar is that we needed to adopt a technology that we thought would beat all other technologies on the cost position. And given what聮s happened in the market, you see how critical that is, concluded Geyette.The GE executives would not be drawn on what the cost per watt production would be at the plant. Future CdTe rival First Solar has a cost point below USD$0.75 per watt.In terms of the equipment used in the plant Danielle Murfel, General Manager of Solar Technology at GE addressed the question from pv magazine. We do have some parts of our factory with equipment that we are buying from suppliers but all of our key deposition equipment is actually manufactured internally by our thin-film equipment group, in the GE solar business. Toxic CadmiumMurfel also addressed a pv magazine question regarding some of the stanley cup toxicity concerns, relat stanley us ing to the cadmium used |
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