Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost


	Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost

BobbyDelray

12-18-2007 11:55 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5a55e9b1-0d69-43fc-a8be-c91e210b764d/F54CB222-5032-4945-BC84-8198C033B34D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include <A title="More information about Google Inc." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/google_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Google</A>’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of <A title="More articles about Solar Energy." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/solar_energy/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier">solar power</A> manufacturing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">The company, which has raised $150 million and built a 200,000-square-foot factory here, is developing a new manufacturing process that “prints” photovoltaic material on aluminum backing, a process the company says will reduce the manufacturing cost of the basic photovoltaic module by more than 80 percent.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/18/technology/18solar.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">Nanosolar, which recently hired a top manufacturing executive from <A title="More information about International Business Machines (I.B.M.)" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/international_business_machines/index.html?inline=nyt-org">I.B.M.</A>, said that it had orders for its first 18 months of manufacturing capacity. 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