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Dr. Gunter Erfurt discusses Swift Solar's efforts to enhance U.S. solar cell production and technology.

What does it take to turn next-generation solar technology into a bankable commercial product? Swift Solar is closing the U.S. heterojunction and perovskite tandem solar cell gap. Dr. Gunter Erfurt, managing director at Swift Solar and former Meyer Burger CEO, joins Tim Montague and John Weaver to explain why U.S. module capacity sits near 50 gigawatts while domestic cell capacity trails at 5 gigawatts. Following Swift Solar's acquisition of Meyer Burger's technology, intellectual property, m...

People in this episode

Hosts: Tim Montague, John Weaver

Guest: Dr. Gunter Erfurt

Topics covered

• solar technology
• U.S. solar market
• heterojunction cells
• perovskite cells
• commercial products

Keywords

• solar cells
• Swift Solar
• Meyer Burger
• U.S. solar capacity
• commercial solar technology

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Organizations: Swift Solar, Meyer Burger

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