Company Partners in Photovoltaic Manufacturing R&D
More than 40 private-sector companies partnered with NREL on successful efforts within the PV Manufacturing R&D Project. They included manufacturers of crystalline silicon, thin-film, and concentrator solar technologies. The companies are listed below.
- Advanced Energy Systems
- Alpha Solarco
- ASE Americas
- AstroPower/GE Energy
- Boeing Aerospace
- BP Solar
- Cronar
- Crystal Systems
- Dow Corning
- Energy Conversion Devices
- Energy Photovoltaics
- ENTECH
- Evergreen Solar
- First Solar
- Glasstech Solar
- Global Photovoltaic Specialists
- Global Solar Energy
- Golden Photon
- Iowa Thin Film Technologies
- ITN Energy Systems
- Kopin
- Mobil Solar Energy
- Omnion Power Engineering
- Photon Energy
- Photovoltaics International
- PowerLight
- RWE Schott Solar/Schott Solar
- Shell Solar Industries
- Siemens Solar Industries
- Sinton Consulting
- Solar Cells
- Solar Design Associates
- Solar Electric Specialties
- Solar Engineering Application
- Solar Kinetics
- Solarex
- Spectrolab
- Specialized Technology Resources
- Spire
- Springborn Laboratories
- SunPower
- Texas Instruments
- Trace Engineering Company
- Utility Power Group
- Westinghouse Electric
- Xantrex Technology
