News Archives - Swift Solar

News June 19, 2024 ICYMI: Swift Solar’s Series A funding round in the news

Last week, Swift Solar announced the close of our Series A funding round. Co-led by Eni Next and Fontinalis Partners,...

News May 16, 2024 U.S. Department of Energy selects Swift Solar for $7M award

Swift Solar was selected for the largest award for perovskites under the Advancing U.S. Thin-Film Solar Photovoltaics funding program—$7M to...

News April 24, 2024 Leading U.S. solar manufacturers seek new tariffs

Swift Solar joined Qcells, First Solar, and other leading solar manufacturers in a new antidumping/countervailing duty (AD/CVD) petition filed with...

News March 5, 2024 TIME names Swift Solar one of the Top Greentech Companies in America

We’re proud to be listed as the top solar technology company and among the top 15 of 250 leading climatetech...

News January 15, 2024 MIT Tech Review highlights Swift Solar in race to bring next-generation solar technology to market

MIT Technology Review chose “super-efficient” perovskite tandem solar cells as one of its top 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2024. Their...

News October 18, 2022 Pique Action showcases Swift Solar in new climate micro-documentary

From Pique Action: We know that to effectively phase out fossil fuels, we need to optimize different types of renewable...

News March 8, 2022 John Kerry visits Stanford and talks perovskites

On March 8, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and his team visited Stanford University to learn about...

News October 6, 2021 Swift Solar awarded CA Energy Commission BRIDGE grant to power next-generation electric vehicles with solar

On October 6, the California Energy Commission (CEC) announced new funding awards under its “BRIDGE 2020: Bringing Rapid Innovation Development...

News April 22, 2021 Swift Solar highlighted in MIT climate symposium on research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system

This engagement forum, “Research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system,” was conceived as an opportunity for the MIT community to...

News April 1, 2021 My Climate Journey podcast: Jason Jacobs and Swift CEO Joel Jean discuss perovskites and solar innovation for climate change

This week’s guest is Joel Jean, Co-Founder & CEO of Swift Solar. Before joining Swift, Joel served as Executive Director...

Education, News February 11, 2021 Swift Solar CEO Joel Jean discusses perovskite PV commercialization and the future of solar energy on the U.S. Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Seminar Series

In a talk titled Perovskites at the Edge of Tomorrow, Swift Solar co-founder and CEO Joel Jean shares a founder’s...

News December 15, 2020 PV Magazine: Swift Solar secures financing to expand its perovskite R&D

Solar PV technology company Swift Solar said it secured more than $8 million in Series Seed 2 funding, with an...

News November 18, 2020 Three Swift co-founders named on 2020 Global Highly Cited Researchers list

Swift co-founders Tomas Leijtens, Giles Eperon, and Sam Stranks were named on this year’s Highly Cited Researchers list. The list,...

News October 13, 2020 E&E News: This solar panel can go on drones, car roofs

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have come up with a new solar photovoltaic technology. It uses materials...

News October 8, 2020 PV Magazine: Swift Solar looks to reinvigorate and push the perovskite market forward

Currently, several other companies are targeting single-junction perovskite panels and perovskite-silicon tandems, but Swift Solar is the only one developing...

News September 30, 2020 Swift Solar and NREL receive 2020 R&D 100 Award for lightweight perovskite solar technology

National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s all-perovskite tandem technology could open up an entirely new solar-energy application: vehicles powered directly by photovoltaics...