Innovative PV Company One of Only 37 Awardees, Selected from a Highly-Competitive Pool of 3,600 Applicants
1366 Technologies, a silicon photovoltaics company, today announced that the company will receive four million dollars in federal funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency — Energy (ARPA-E) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
1366 Technologies, an MIT spin-off focused on engineering and manufacturing advanced silicon solar cells, today announced the company has been awarded a cost-shared, 18-month subcontract with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the “Self-Aligned Cell: Scaling up manufacture of a cost effective cell architecture for multi-crystalline silicon photovoltaics†Project. The total potential funding from the DOE under the Solar America Initiative (SAI) is up to $3.0 million for the project.
1366 Technologies, an MIT spin-off focused on engineering and manufacturing advanced silicon solar cells, today announced the company will host a grand opening reception on October 16 to debut its new Lexington, MA manufacturing facility.
MIT spin-off 1366 Technologies is the winner of a startup competition at Greentech Media’s PV Annual 2008 conference near Boston.
On Wednesday, panelists Jeff Andrews (Atlas Venture), Rob Day (@Ventures) and Jay Fiske (Massachusetts Green Energy Fund) named 1366 as the most promising of five solar startups that presented their technologies and business plans at the conference.
MIT Professor Ely Sachs Aims to Beat Coal with Improved Silicon Solar Cell Manufacturing
1366 Technologies, a new MIT start-up aiming to make silicon solar cells competitive with coal, today announced it has secured $12.4 million in a first round of financing co-led by North Bridge Venture Partners and Polaris Venture Partners.
