The California company's panels use a technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. CIGS-based panels are often more efficient than conventional silicon-based or thin-film solar modules; this week, researchers at Germany's Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung (Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research) announced that they had developed a CIGS panel that achieved 20.3 percent conversion efficiency.
Commercial-scale CIGS technology has yet to achieve that level of efficiency, but it remains an effective alternative to conventional solar panel systems. Juwi Solar will use miaSole's panels in large-scale ground- and rooftop-mounted solar projects across Germany.
"MiaSole modules are the cost effective solution for utility-scale installations, both rooftop and ground-mount, and this is the beginning of what we hope to be a long-term partnership focused on large scale solar deployments," miaSole CEO Joseph Laia said.
The panels that juwi Solar is buying will be shipped in the current and fourth quarters of the year, miaSole noted.
