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Worldchanging Interview: HelioVolt CEO B.J. Stanbery

Posted on September 29, 2008

This article was written by Jon Lebkowsky in March 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.Austin-based HelioVolt Corporation has raised over $100 million in investment capital to finance production of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cells. While CIGS might be less efficient than crystalline silicon solar cells, they're also cheaper, and HelioVolt's investors are banking on the cost-effectiveness of its FASSTTM technology, which prints the CIGS coating directly onto a wide variety of substrates. This technology was developed by HelioVolt ...

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