Prior to Isola, Waters was senior vice president and general manager with Altera Corporation and also with Texas Instruments/National Semiconductor in both the U.S. and Japan for 18 years in a variety of executive positions, including global sales. He holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in engineering from Santa Clara University and a MBA from Northwestern University.
SunPower’s NGT cells and modules will offer customers similar performance to itsX-Series products with significantly lower manufacturing costs. Panels with a72-cell format at 450 watts have been UL certified and will be delivered to initial commercial customer sites in the first quarter of 2019.
“When we reach full production, we expect that the cost per watt of the world’s highest efficiency NGT cells and modules will be similar to mono-PERC technology, but with superior levelized cost of energy due to higher performance and durability,” Werner said. “With the recent funding of our second NGT manufacturing line, we will now have approximately 250 megawatts of nameplate NGT capacity by the end of 2019 and plan to deliver meaningful volumes this year, as well.”
In addition to ramping NGT, SunPower will begin full production in the coming weeks of its Performance Series(P-Series) solar panels at the recently acquired SolarWorld Americas facility in Hillsboro, Ore.
SunPower also announced that Bill Mulligan, executive vice president of operations will transition out of his role over the course of 2019.
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