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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,...

Press Releases June 12, 2024 Swift Solar announces $27 million Series A funding round

San Carlos, CA – June 12, 2024 – Swift Solar, a pioneering American solar technology company, today announced the close...

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...

Blog Entries May 22, 2023 TEAMUP Consortium funded to develop more stable and affordable tandem solar cells

The Biden administration and DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced over $80 million in funding to facilitate solar panel manufacturing in...

Blog Entries December 7, 2022 Swift Solar tackles reverse bias stability of perovskite solar cells, with DOE funding

Shading of just a few cells in a solar panel (module) can stop the entire module from working. These shading...

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...

Education April 5, 2022 Electric Future video highlights Swift Solar and perovskite technology

This artfully animated video from Electric Future highlights our #perovskite solar cell technology and our vision for the future of solar. Check it...

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...

Press Releases December 15, 2020 Swift Solar Secures Over $8M in Series Seed 2 Funding with Climate Tech and Deep Tech Investors

SAN CARLOS, Calif., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Solar PV technology company Swift Solar announced today that it secured more than $8 million in...

Blog Entries December 15, 2020 With Series Seed 2 Round, Climate Tech Leaders Advance the Future of Solar

This month Swift Solar is closing a Series Seed-2 financing round, with expected new investments totaling $9.6M. In this Seed-2...

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...

News September 1, 2020 Swift co-founder Sam Stranks: How a new solar and lighting technology could propel a renewable energy transformation

The demand for cheaper, greener electricity means that the energy landscape is changing faster than at any other point in...

News June 30, 2020 Swift co-founder Joel Jean named on Business Insider’s Rising Stars of Clean Energy list

An enormous transition is underway across the electric grid. Power plants that run on fossil fuels are being replaced by...

News May 20, 2020 MIT Energy Initiative: Startup with MITEI roots develops lightweight solar panels

Joel Jean PhD ’17 spent two years working on The Future of Solar Energy, a report published by the MIT Energy...

News May 13, 2020 Grist: Solar panels are more efficient than you’ve heard

Some of US-MAP’s commercial partners are already thinking about how to get the first perovskite solar panels out into the...

News April 30, 2020 BBC News: A breakthrough approaches for solar power

According to Max Hoerantner, co-founder of Swift Solar, a San Francisco start-up, there are only about 10 start-up firms in...

News April 29, 2020 Swift Solar, NREL, and other perovskite industry players launch US-MAP consortium for U.S. perovskite manufacturing

“Perovskites have the potential to become a game-changer for solar and many other fields,” said Martin Keller, director of NREL....

News February 6, 2020 MIT News features new paper co-authored by Swift co-founder and CEO

Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in...

News January 16, 2020 Swift co-founder Max Hoerantner featured on leading Austrian startup and technology news site

(Translated from German) Swift Solar: How an Austrian builds a solar startup in Silicon Valley He was at ETH Zurich,...

News September 19, 2019 MIT News highlights PV techno-economic analysis by Swift co-founder Joel Jean

A new study shows that, contrary to widespread belief within the solar power industry, new kinds of solar cells and...

News June 26, 2019 NREL awarded $745K for DOE Technology Commercialization Fund project with Swift Solar

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received more than $3.2 million from the Technology Commercialization Fund within the U.S. Department...

News May 16, 2019 MIT Technology Review: These flexible solar cells bring us closer to kicking the fossil-fuel habit

No solar material has managed to supplant silicon. Perovskites, which are far cheaper and can be made into flexible modules,...

Blog Entries April 11, 2019 Introducing Swift Solar

Swift Solar is a U.S. startup developing a new class of efficient, lightweight, and flexible solar products based on perovskite...

News December 26, 2018 TechCrunch: A new solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy

Across the globe, a clutch of companies from Oxford, England to Redwood City, Calif. are working to commercialize a new...

News December 20, 2018 Swift co-founder Sam Stranks is a featured TED Fellow

Someday, solar panels may be light and cheap enough that they could be hung on a clothesline, thanks to a...

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