Next-Gen Energy Conference: Moore’s Law for solar?

Tom Werner, CEO of solar cell and panel maker SunPower Corp., disagreed, insisting that the Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore’s famous dictum applies to the increase in solar tech efficiency.

“We’re where semiconductors were 20 or 30 years ago,” he said.

“Solar’s on the verge of going mainstream and will become a much bigger industry,” Werner said. “There’s going to be a land grab like the Wild Wild West.”