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To: jacq who wrote (4081)	10/1/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: jacq	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8393

There's competition out there. NREL has just published a couple of candidates for Awards. NREL's second 1999 R&D 100 award recognized the high efficiency of photovoltaic modules that convert sunlight into electricity using copper indium diselenide based solar cells. In tests conducted at NREL, the Siemens Solar modules demonstrated efficiencies of more than 12 percent, by far the highest of any commercial thin film module. The solar modules were developed with the support from Department of Energy/NREL Thin Film Photovoltaic Partnership program. Thin film PV modules, such as the Siemens Solar product, have the potential of greatly reducing the cost of solar electricity and providing a wide range of new products with mass appeal. Members of NREL's Thin Film PV Partnership program include Harin Ullal, Ken Zweibel and Bolko Von Roedern.