The Many Applications Of PV In this third guest blog, Philip Wolfe shows how applications have proliferated since photovoltaic industry first emerged in the 1970s, as described in his book In the 1980s, the first practical uses for solar power on earth again focused on high reliability applications, where cheap electricity was unavailable. Solar systems started ... »
Price Trends Since The Early Solar Years In this second guest blog, Philip Wolfe traces how prices have evolved since the photovoltaic industry first emerged in the 1970s, as described in his book US based company Solarex, founded by Peter Varadi, played a key role in developing methods to decrease cost for vertically integrated commercial solar module production. The ... »
So Many Advanced Solar Module Technologies There Are Plenty Of Advanced Module Technologies Now Commercially Available, As Shown in A New TaiyangNews Report. But What's The Way To Go? Comparing the best commercial advanced modules of leading suppliers in our new TaiyangNews report, there is no clear trend regarding technology yet. Shingles and MBB based ... »
The Early Solar Years The first in a series of three, this guest blog by solar pioneer Philip Wolfe reviews technological progress since the mid-1970s, when terrestrial photovoltaics first emerged, as described in his book World's largest solar array 1966 - by Sharp (photo credit: Sharp) »
No Need To Change A Winning Team TaiyangNews Talked To DuPont’s Mark Ma, Who Explained Why Transparent Backhsheets For Bifacial Modules Are A Perfect Fit "We believe that bifacial technology has a promising future, as it brings the ability to generate power from the backside and maximize total power output of the module," said ... »
The Charm Of Bifacial Solar Getting Ready for Much Higher Yields with Bifacial Modules. TaiyangNews’ New Bifacial Solar Module Technology 2018 Report Shows Why There’s No Way Around Bifacial Solar It is impossible not to fall in love with bifacial technology. Its charm and promise are simply so enticing. While there are different opinions about the bifacial path to go, ... »
High-Performance from the Start The Story How A Chinese Start-Up Has Become the Country’s Leading Metallization Paste Supplier – An Interview with DKEM Founder & CEO Weili Shi When Weili Shi found out that the solar market for silver pastes was dominated by Western companies, it was quickly clear to him that there is a strong need for a local ... »
High Efficiency & High Reliability DuPont Solamet’s Ted Zhi & Ben Jin Talked To TaiyangNews About The US Company’s Long-Standing Solar Commitment And Its View On The Latest Trends In The Solar Metallization Business "We are proud to introduce at SNEC an expanded portfolio of products including a new generation of Solamet metallization pastes, new Tedlar backsheet materials as well as the ... »
Mono Bifacial PERC Preferred Hongbin Fang, Global Director of Product Marketing at LONGi Solar, told TaiyangNews why he believes that Mono Bifacial PERC is the most viable way to lower solar LCOEs LONGi’s Hongbin Fang said, “When looking into the near future, we see that p-PERC has very high development potential. Our record cell efficiency for a p-PERC cell has already ... »
Beyond PERC Will Likely Have To Wait Why PERC Will Be The Solar Cell Standard For The Coming Years And It Will Be Hard For Alternative Technologies To Gain Big Market Shares LONGi, the world's largest mono wafer manufacturer, is a driving force to push solar wafer technology from multi to mono. It is also very active in the field of PERC solar ... »
