Konarka Secures French Solar PV Partner

Konarka Technologies Inc. (Lowell, MA) has teamed up with Groupe Electricité de France (EDF, Paris, France), an international utility with an operating a portfolio of over 120,000MW of generation capacity in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, in a major business endeavor aimed at expediting commercialization of their solar photovoltaic (PV) products.

Under the terms of the agreement with Konarka, EDF will contribute expertise from its European operations to accelerate the development and roll-out of Konarka's polymer PV products. Working through EDF's Silicon Valley-based Easenergy, the companies will collaborate to develop and launch Konarka's polymer PV products into the global market to provide a source of renewable power in a variety of form factors for commercial, industrial, government and consumer applications.