Midsummer, a copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) thin-film solar startup, bought the site for a 50 MW factory in southern Italy this year, and has now lodged an application for support from Invitalia. Invitalia is an Italian organization under the Ministry of Economy which exists to support startups and has so far dished out $8.3 billion dollars supplemented by EU funds. Its decision will made in the first half of next year. In the meantime, Midsummer is planning the factory layout. The modest revival of Europe’s solar manufacturing, on the cards for the next several years, consists mostly of silicon heterojunction technology, so it’s interesting to see a more fringe technology succeeding. For now, the biggest thin-film player on the market is First…