Originally Posted by Tesla
What's up with Solyndra?


They went belly-up on 8/31/2011, laid off their ENTIRE workforce and filed chapter 11.

I have had two projects using them, great idea, but sadly the process is extremely complicated and labor intensive for manufacture and being thin-film, they can't compete with traditional manufacturing processes.

It also produces noticeably less than traditional silicon modules, we have both on sister buildings in a building complex and while you can cram a significantly larger quantity on a flat rooftop it is producing the same of less than the traditional angled row spaced out array on the sister building, which has significantly fewer modules.

Still a great idea and the no anchorage method of mounting is a great installation timesaver, just the whole cost/watt problem.