Solar encompasses endless possibilities

October 4th, 2019

“The building block is fabric, but there are a million possibilities to utilize solar,” says Pvilion founder and CEO Colin Touhey. Touhey gave an introductory presentation October 3 at Expo 2019 on cases for energy generation in fabric products. One of his first projects using solar cells in fabric was architectural in nature when he […]

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Let there be (flexible) light!

March 4th, 2016

As efficiencies continue to improve, more applications are found for flexible photovoltaics For a long time, it was common knowledge that thin film and flexible photovoltaics (PV) were not practical because of their lower efficiencies compared with more traditional glass-encased PV. That is no longer the case. Today efficiencies are comparable (approaching or exceeding 20 […]

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