Solar Inventions finds making companion as well as customer of its 'configurable current cells'

• A year after Solar Inventions took starting point in the U.S. Department of Energy's American-Made Solar Prize competitors, the firm announced that Georgia-based business solar developer Cherry Street Energy has placed a 20-MW order for photovoltaic panels making use of Solar Inventions' C3 innovation.

The initial sets of C3 cells and panels with Solar Inventions' improved solar battery architecture were produced by a concealed solar panel maker.

Solar Inventions, headquartered in Atlanta, calls its item C3, for "Configurable Current Cells." CFV Solar Test Laboratory, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, has completed IEC61853-1 screening for the C3 modern technology.

" Any maker can accredit the technology, with a superb cost-benefit ratio," stated Ben Damiani, Solar Inventions' co-founder and Chief Scientist. "The benefits resemble half-cells, yet without needing cells to be physically broken and re-shaped."

Solar Inventions' patent-pending discovery puts solar cells into "lanes" by electrically separating each cell right into subcells, allowing present to flow more directly. The new PV cell design boosts the power created by a little increasing voltage as well as fill variable, and conserves sufficient silver in producing to cover licensing costs.