Netcrystal has developed a MEMS-style solar technology that lets photovoltaic silicon stretch and expand to cover large areas. Netcrystal’s CEO, Bala Padmakumar, claims that the device’s efficiency will rival and exceed that of the mighty SunPower (~19%) while beating the price claims of the mightily-hyped Nanosolar ($.99/watt).
The technology and IP originate with work done at [...]
Thomas Atwood doesn’t look like a farmer (in fact he’s more of a database jockey) but as a board member and the interim President at PureSense, he’s guiding a company that directly helps farmers in a crucial way – monitoring and managing their water usage. I spoke with him in Menlo Park last week in [...]
To Trinity Ventures, green technology largely revolves around networking. Rather than place investments on biofuels or solar panels, the firm is largely focusing its green efforts on companies that hope to cut power and water consumption with IT technologies, according to Fred Wang, general partner. (ed note: It’s a strategy that’s similar to one that’s [...]
Solyndra, the secretive developer of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells, is trying to raise $350 million in an effort to get into mass production, but the deal is causing some in Silicon Valley to shiver.
The Fremont-based company, which raised $79 million in venture funds in 2007, wants the money to build a 420-megawatt [...]
We read solar patents so you don’t have to…
While you were out carousing this past weekend, I was looking at some of Solyndra’s CIGS solar patents. Here’s what I found:
The patent for “Elongated PV Cells in Casings” is authored by two former Solyndra employees, Ratson Morad, now with Daystar, and Benny Buller, now with CdTe [...]
Solyndra, one of our favorite not-so-stealthy CIGS solar firms, signed some big supply agreements late last month. Here are some other Solyndra tidbits:
We’ve covered Solyndra’s valuation story in the past.
Why would Soyndra spend $60,000 on lobbyists?
$5 million of Solyndra’s $93.5 million equipment financing facility in late 2007 came from Icon Income Fund Ten; “The equipment [...]
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