Solar
Frontier,
owned
by
oil
and
gas
company
Showa
Shell,
became
the
world’s
largest
producer
of
CIS
solar
panels
last
year
after
opening
a
900MW
factory
in
Japan.
CIS
technology,
using
copper,
indium
and
selenide,
has
so
far
had
little
commercial
success
and
is
dwarfed
by
other
kinds
of
thin-film
modules,
particularly
cadmium-telluride
panels
made
by
First
Solar.
But
after
shipping
around
400MW
last
year,
mostly
to
the
international
market,
Solar
Frontier
plans
to
shift
much
more
of
its
production
to
its
home
turf,
says
Atsuhiko
Hirano,
director
of
international
business
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