[Vo]:Re: U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects

[Michel Jullian]

You're right, 14% is _not_ their average efficiency. Their present average is 9 
to 10%, see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg24788.html

But what matters ultimately for solar power plants is $/W, not efficiency, for 
example the 250MW plant Southern California Edison is presently deploying seems 
to be only 4% efficient, see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg25619.html

Michel

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In reply to  Mike Carrell's message of Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:39:09 -0400:
Hi,
[snip]
>The informaltion about Nanosolar with printed PV with 14% efficiency looks 
>most interesting, but you need to deploy a few square miles to find the 
>'gotchas' through wind, sand and rain.
[snip]
Note that 14% is the *best* they have achieved. It would be interesting to know
what the average is.