{"id":32908,"date":"2012-10-15T09:52:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=32908"},"modified":"2012-10-15T09:52:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:52:19","slug":"new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-by-solar-junction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/new-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-by-solar-junction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Solar Cell Efficiency Record Set by Solar Junction"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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The U.S. company Solar Junction<\/a> set the gold standard for solar cell efficiency<\/a> last year at 43.5 percent, a worldwide mark that it has just shattered with a new solar cell efficiency record<\/a> of 44 percent. This baby ain’t no hothouse flower, either. All the lab work is behind it and it’s ready for commercial production, which (by the way) will take place right here in the U.S. thanks to support from the Department of Energy.<\/p>\n

We Built New Solar Cell Efficiency Record!<\/h2>\n

Solar Junction was spun out of Stanford University research in 2007 as a technology transfer, the same year that the\u00a0SunShot Incubator<\/a> program was established in the Department of Energy (yes, under the Bush Administration). The aim of the program was to support the development of promising new solar power technologies in the U.S.
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