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NREL research fellow Timothy J. Coutts will become the lab's second emeritus research fellow in November.

Coutts Sees Solar Efficiencies Outrace his Wildest Expectations

Twenty years ago, NREL Research Fellow Dr. Timothy Coutts scoffed at a suggestion that solar cells could be 20 percent efficient. Now poised to become an emeritus fellow, he predicts solar technology will become "omnipresent." Full story

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