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So Cal supposed to get 880-MW of solar

Southern California Edison has signed contracts with solar developers SunPower and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures to buy solar electricity for a total of 831 MW of solar projects. SunPower plans to build three solar photovoltaic projects in California for a total of 711 MW, while Fotowatio has a contract for four solar photovoltaic projects for a total of 120 MW. The projects will be built in Kern, Los Angeles and Merced counties, and Fotowatio’s smaller group of projects is... Read More

SunPower Achieves Unprecedented 24.2% Solar Cell Efficiency

SunPower Corp. has produced a full-scale solar cell with a sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency of 24.2 percent at its manufacturing plant in the Philippines. This is a new world record for large area silicon wafers, and has been confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).Improved cell efficiency reduces the levelized cost of energy by increasing the energy production from each wafer manufactured into a SunPower... Read More