Thursday, July 17, 2008

Xunlight Receives $4.9 million Award from State of Ohio

Toledo, Ohio –– Xunlight Corporation, a leader in the development of low cost and flexible thin-film silicon solar modules, announced it has been awarded $4.9 million from the State of Ohio’s Research Commercialization Program to leverage its technology into Ohio-based manufacturing lines and bring new products to market. The proposed project has three primary objectives: develop an improved, advanced thin-film solar-cell fabrication technology; develop an improved, advanced flexible solar module manufacturing process, with the necessary equipment; and develop advanced photovoltaic products targeted to markets to leverage the competitive characteristics of their thin-film solar cells. Link.