16 Jul
Supersize Solar Panels?
Why not supersize solar panels? Roger Little, chief executive of Spire, which develops equipment for solar PV panel manufacturing, thinks so. Little, who spoke on a panel at the Intersolar conference this week in San Francisco, told us that his Medford, Mass.-based company has developed a prototype of a machine that would produce what he calls “supersized” solar modules. The giant panels would be about 3 feet by 12 feet in size and produce about 1 kilowatt of power each, or about five times the surface area and power output of standard panels today.