utility scale solar

Last Monday Applied Materials celebrated the summer solstice – the day the sun shines in the northern hemisphere for the longest period of time all year – by hosting a five day series of online conversations via Twitter on various aspects of solar energy.

These one-hour conversations featured a different expert each day to discuss various topics including solar energy legislation, utility scale solar, the solar industry in China and the benefits of solar installations, to name a few.

Rob DeLine, managing director of solar marketing at Applied Materials, discussed the positive economic impact of utility scale solar and its potential to create jobs and manufacturing ecosystems in communities across the world on Twitter today as part of this week’s series of online conversations on various aspects of solar energy.

Here at Applied we talk a lot about scale, because ultimately scale is the key to unlocking solar power’s potential to transform our energy economy. The reason for this is simple: scale drives down costs. This is the essential lesson of solar’s historical development, and it has important implications for solar’s future.

Applied Materials will be hosting a series of online conversation via Twitter on various aspects of solar energy June 21 – 25 from 12:00 – 1:00 pm PT each day.

These one-hour conversations, will kick off the first day of summer - Summer Solstice - by featuring a different expert each day to discuss various topics including solar energy legislation, utility scale solar, the solar industry in China and the benefits of solar installations, to name a few.

If you Google the question "How big is Applied Materials' SunFab solar panel," you'll find the answer is 5.7m2.

Similarly, if you want to know how big a 5MW SunFab thin film solar farm is, look no further than Applied Materials to find the answer.