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In recent years, a new generation of solar electric products has emerged from the lab into the global market: thin-film technologies that employ approximately 1% of the active, expensive photovoltaic material used by standard crystalline-silicon cells. Through a combination of cost advantages and new product applications, cadmium telluride (CdTe), amorphous silicon, and copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) thin-film PV have the potential to foster a paradigm shift toward distributed electricity generation at cost parity with other forms of energy.