Comments on: General Electric to Invest In Thin Film Solar Player PrimeStar

By: TIM KREISCHER

TIM KREISCHER — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:19:13 +0000

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By: steve

steve — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:30:27 +0000

Can anybody give me advice on laminating my floors quickly? I liked the article on laminating . it was informative

thanks steve

By: GE Becomes Prime Investor in PrimeStar « Earth2Tech

GE Becomes Prime Investor in PrimeStar « Earth2Tech — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:52:17 +0000

[...] No Comments Posted June 12th, 2008 at 8:50 am in Energy We were a bit surprised when last September GE announced it was acquiring a minority interest, in a company making thin film solar called PrimeStar Solar. [...]

By: Pudjiono Iwansantoso

Pudjiono Iwansantoso — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:05:15 +0000

Attn. Mr Ken Zweibel, President of PrimeStar Solar.
Dear Mr Zweibel,
Inspired by your article in Sci Am January 2008, “A Grand Plan for Solar Energy”, I would like to know more how this plan has further progressed in the mean time. My interest is 2-fold:
1. to have the privilage to obtain more info from you and to enabvle me to write an article about the exciting Grand Plan, in some local papers.
2. also, to be granted the authority to promote and sell Solar PV systems (based on CdTe cells/modules) in my country, produced by PrimeStar Solar.
PT Centronix, which I am the president of, is basically a system integrator in the sector of Radio Telecommunication. In this sector I came accross with Solar PV modules, to energise radio repeaters located on top of hills. PT Centronix , about 20 years ago or more has bought the licence from Solarex USA (now BP Solar), unfortunately too early for Indonesia. We assembled by manually stringing imported cells and vacuum laminating into modules. That is all history now.
I see a huge opportunity to promote and sell systems in my country, such as described in your article. My country at present is having a huge shortage of energy generation and I am ambitious to promote renewable energy.
I sincerely hope and expect, that you would be so kind as to give response to my message, hopefully an encouraging response that I can follow through in my country.
Thank you for your kind attention.
Best regards,
P. Iwansantoso (just call me Iwan)
February 29th, 2008

By: Q-Cells Buys Solar Fields « Earth2Tech

Q-Cells Buys Solar Fields « Earth2Tech — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:39:55 +0000

[...] (CdTe) photovoltaic modules. Thin-film technology has many speculators hopeful, and Q-Cells follows GE (GE) in investing in CdTe technology. There are associated health and safety risks in working with cadmium, but CdTe has the [...]

By: Sunny News: Solar RoundUp « Earth2Tech

Sunny News: Solar RoundUp « Earth2Tech — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:45:43 +0000

[...] Likey Thin Film: We brought you the news that GE has reached an agreement to acquire a minority interest in thin film player PrimeStar Solar. Ecomagination in effect! Digg Stumble [...]

By: Investing » General Electric to Invest In Thin Film Solar Player PrimeStar

Investing » General Electric to Invest In Thin Film Solar Player PrimeStar — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:50:30 +0000

[...] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptUnder GE’s ecomagination, which was launched in May of 2005, GE plans to invest $1.5 billion annually in research in cleaner technologies by 2010, up from $700 million in 2004. This year, the company was awarded $18.6M available over a … [...]

By: Adena DeMonte

Adena DeMonte — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:56:32 +0000

Ken -- Thanks for the comment. I updated the story.

By: Ken Zweibel

Ken Zweibel — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:21:27 +0000

Thanks, Adena, for a very good story. I've talked to a lot of journalists, and most are nowhere near as fair and thorough.

One thing you might have gotten the wrong impression from me was about the record cell developed at NREL. Its development was led by others - especially researchers X.Wu, D. Albin, T. Gessert, P. Sheldon, and R. Dhere - and more. And many of these same researchers continue to be a big help to PrimeStar Solar through our cooperative research agreement with NREL.

Again, thanks, and all the best.