Last year, GE exited the solar manufacturing business, selling off its crystalline silicon module assembly plant in Newark, Delaware, to Motech Industries, Taiwan’s largest photovoltaic manufacturer.

But GE said all along that it would focus more attention on solar technology development.

GE will set its scientists and engineers at four research hubs around the world to work on various aspects of developing PrmeStar’s cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film technology.

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