Oregon-based Origami Solar won the grand prize in the US Department of Energy’s American-Made Solar Prize 2022 competition. The patent-pending steel frame is said to lower costs and improve module ...
Eric Hafter, co-founder and chairman of Origami Solar. Image: Origami Solar. Origami Solar was founded in 2020 and is commercialising a roll form steel module frame solution that it claims can deliver ...
Steel frames are the second most expensive part of the BOM for a module after solar cells. Image: Origami Solar. When US president Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August 2022, ...