Blood, sweat, and tears: Global Solar’s Jeff Britt starts to see fruits of his CIGS labors pay off
There’s only a handful of industry veterans who have invested as much blood, sweat, tears, and time into the development of flexible thin-film solar photovoltaics as Jeff Britt. He joined Global Solar Energy in 1998, when the company’s copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide technology was an R&D project, and any product commercialization years away. He spent several years as the company’s CTO and head of manufacturing, overseeing the construction and production ramp of its CIGS fabs in Tucson and Berlin. Last November, Britt replaced Mike Gering as president/CEO. I spoke with Global’s newish boss on the phone earlier this week about the latest conversion efficiency results from NREL and other subjects as well.