Prism Solar Technologies, Inc., which few months ago got $1,000,000 grant from The Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC) for its patented holographic planar concentrator technology, wants to be at grid parity by 2012.
Prism is currently raising money to build a 60-gigawatt solar facility as well as a 1-gigawatt holographic film facility, reported greentechmedia.com. It had received the first equipment for its 60 megawatt holographic film production line in June last year.
Prism’s core technology is based on holographic optics, which can be used with any PV cell technology. This technology selects the desired spectrum of sunlight allowing for a “cooler” solar cell operation while maintaining an increased power output by concentrating specific solar wavelengths unto the cells, according to the company.
At the time of the manufacturing grant announced in October last year, the company had shared that the funding will allow it to accelerate its development of its PV module designs at one of its partners Kingston NY facility while completing negotiations on its own New York facility manufacturing location.
60-GW ?????
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