Michael Allman is appointed CEO of PI Energy

Progress & updates

San Diego location move

Michael Allman joins PI Energy Board of Directors

PI Energy is a recipient of the DOE's American-Made Solar funding prize in Photovoltaics!

Acento joined PI Energy’s Pilot Deployment Program, initiating a collaboration for planned pilot installations of PI Energy’s technology on residential, commercial, and industrial buildings (roofs, walls, fences and parking areas).

GoFor Industries, Inc (gofor) joined PI Energy’s Pilot Deployment Program, entering into an agreement with PI Energy for pilot installations of PI Energy’s game-changing solar photovoltaic technology.

As we move forward on PI Energy’s solar PV development, much of our current work is in determining how to optimize each fabrication step. Here we show some of our milestones on small-area samples where we test different processing methods to determine the best path forward.

PI Energy has entered into an agreement with an advanced fabrication facility to make our solar cell photovoltaic materials at Arizona State University.

There is a growing US policy drive to “reshore” important industries and fabrication back to the United States, reversing decades of offshoring.

As we move forward on PI Energy’s solar PV development, much of our current work is in determining how to optimize each fabrication step. Here we show some of our milestones on small-area samples where we test different processing methods to determine the best path forward.

Instead of sawing crystal ingots, PI Energy's technology uses deposition processes, allowing us to use flexible substrates, resulting in a silicon PV layer that is extremely thin and lightweight - with less than 2% of the silicon contained in traditional PV.

We are leveraging a proven material and configuring it in a new and better way.

The latest plan from the Desertec Foundation advocates for a high-voltage link between Europe, North Africa and parts of the Middle East; with power generation that could connect solar thermal, wind, solar photovoltaic, biomass, geothermal, and hydroelectric power plants.

PI Energy’s technology enables a new rethinking of how solar projects could be better in the future. As we come to rely on far more solar energy, it needs to be cost-competitive and sustainable. PI Energy is developing solar PV that is designed to be: thin, lightweight, flexible, non-toxic, and easy to install.

As we move forward on PI Energy’s solar PV development, much of our current work is in determining how to optimize each fabrication step. Here we show some of our milestones on small-area samples where we test different processing methods to determine the best path forward.

Cleantechnica just published an article titled “Renewable Choices: Global Clean Technology Transition”

We want to take the opportunity to address a frequent question that we have been asked: What is your pilot deployment plan? This is an important topic, since it is our next step towards commercialization. 

All products, including wind turbines and traditional solar PV modules, require energy to fabricate, transport, and install. Most of today’s solar PV is manufactured using a lot of energy supplied from the burning of coal.