http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3 Sun, 11 May 2008 01:31:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At Nanosolar, we believe very much that meaningful scale for solar will come foremost from utility-scale solar power plants, in particular from municipal solar power plants of 2-10MW in size.  These are rows of solar panels mounted onto the ground of free fields at the outskirts of towns and cities, ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2008/04/municipal-solar-power-plants/ EDF press release says it all. And yes: California is a big target of this partnership of ours.  Multi-MW sized farms in particular. More info: Press articles http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2008/04/edf-enters-strategic-partnership-with-nanosolar-invests-50-million/ After five years of product development -- including aggressively pipelined science, research and development, manufacturing process development, product testing, manufacturing engineering and tool development, and factory construction -- we now have shipped our first product -- the Nanosolar Utility Panel™. We are grateful to everyone who supported us through all these years ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/12/nanosolar-ships-first-panels/ Popular Science magazine -- which many of us read when we were little -- just came out with its annual innovation awards. Our solar electricity technology was named the top Innovation of the Year 2007. Ranked #1 overall, we even came out ahead of the Apple iPhone and many other great technologies (and companies with ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/11/named-innovation-of-the-year/ A few words of an answer to this very frequently asked question: We are presently a private company and therefore have no stock symbol and no shares available for purchase by the public.  In fact, in the past, we have very carefully controlled our selection of investors, and it has been very ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/10/frequently-asked-question-whats-your-stock-symbol-how-can-i-invest/ While the inside of our completed factory is not going to be viewable by general visitors from the public due to all the proprietary things we have in there on every other square inch, here's a photo from a bit earlier of the first part of one of our roll-to-roll ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/10/san-jose-factory-construction/ Another gas tank installed yesterday...about 4 stories tall...that should be enough now for manufacturing supply for a while!   http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/10/another-tank-is-up/ Yesterday we got our nitrogen tank installed in San Jose.  It's a big one...as is everything in this factory. http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/09/nitrogen-tank-going-up/ I am honored to be able to confirm that Nanosolar has been selected -- and completed negotiation -- for a substantial funding award as part of the high-profile Solar America Initiative. The competition was stiff and included every single significant solar company in this country, including SunPower, First Solar, General Electric, etc.  So we are ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/09/nanosolar-awarded-solar-america-initiative-grant/ http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=525102373 http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/09/cnbc-on-nanosolar/ That's a difficult question. Because we value the tens of thousands of inquiries we have received -- yet our product is allocated so much in advance already. As we are about to inaugurate our first commercial manufacturing facility, I wanted to make sure to say a few words early on to set general ... http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/09/how-to-get-hold-of-our-initial-product/ Ten questions & answers with our CEO in a recent Earth2Tech interview were widely noted. You can read the complete interview here: http://earth2tech.com/2007/07/30/10-questions-for-nanosolar-ceo-martin-roscheisen/  http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/09/earth2tech-10-questions-for-nanosolar-ceo/