Solar Is Always Good For Surprises The Latest Solar Module Advancements To Improve Efficiency & Power Output While in last year’s TaiyangNews Advanced Solar Module Technologies Report the most powerful 72-cell module had a rated power of 410 W, in the 2019 edition’s listing there are ... »
Innovation in Module Backsheets & Encapsulation TaiyangNews First Combined Market Survey on Solar Backsheets & Encapsulation Shows New Products & Trends That Have Convinced Module Makers to Offer 30 Year Performance Warranties Loads of innovation in backsheets & encapsulation products for solar modules, such as applying grid backsheets: In order not to waste the light that hits empty spaces between ... »
PP – a Low Cost Alternative for Backsheet’s Core TaiyangNews talked to Rudi Peters, responsible global solar manager at chemical company Borealis, which has introduced a polypropylene product to challenge long time polyester as the core for backsheet composites Borealis recently introduced a polypropylene based compound called Quentys PP as an alternative to the PET core layer in backsheets for solar modules. Borealis' Rudi Peters ... »
24% HJT Production Efficiencies in Sight TaiyangNews talked with Jinergy CEO Liyou Yang about the Chinese company’s experience developing a pilot line for heterojunction technology and its plans for commercialization on a GW scale Jinergy is one of the first PV module makers that has been seriously working on heterojunction technology. TaiyangNews talked with Jinergy CEO Liyou Yang about the Chinese ... »
HJT Technology Is Ready! Gunter Erfurt, CTO of Meyer Burger, told TaiyangNews why he believes the time has come for Heterojunction Technology to play a role in solar cell manufacturing "HJT is ready in terms of both process developments, as well as capex and cost of ownership," said Gunter Erfurt in an interview for TaiyangNews HJT Report 2019. Adding, ... »
The Time Seems Ripe for HJT Why Heterojunction Cell Technology Could Play A Significant Role In The Next Capex Phase for Solar Production Equipment There are several reasons why heterojunction solar technology could see an increasing number of cell/module manufacturers soon embrace this high-efficiency silicon cell variant. »
Solar-powered Quadcopter for Hours of Flight A Solar-Powered Quadcopter Developed in Taiwan Showed At Least 7 Times Longer Flight Time Than Commercial Drones We developed a quadcopter able to continuously fly over 3 hours using solar energy, at last 7 times the commercial drones can, and 48 times to the same drone without solar power. »
Elimination of LID by Black Silicon Black Silicon Not Only Improves The Optical Behaviour Of Multicrystalline Solar Cells But Makes The Cells More Stable While the market share of mono increases, multi PERC will keep a share in the PV market, as long as the efficiency gap against mono remains moderate. Black silicon (b-Si) is ... »
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 ... »
