One might think there’s little room for further developments of backsheet and encapsulants, the polymers protecting the electric circuit of a solar module from the elements and mechanical stress.
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 at least 15 commercially available module products that have more than 410 W, and the top products are significantly more powerful.
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 the cells in a bifacial module, Hangzhou First and others are applying reflective material that mimics the role of white EVA in a standard monofacial module.
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..
Comparing the best commercial advanced modules of leading suppliers in our new TaiyangNews report, there is no clear trend regarding technology yet.
It is impossible not to fall in love with bifacial technology. Its charm and promise are simply so enticing.
Our TaiyangNews Market Survey on Solar Backsheets 2018 shows plenty of developments in this import segment for module manufacturing: New players, new products, new challenges.
Luminescence imaging has evolved into a crucial and reliable characterization principle in PV – used almost from upstream production start in silicon crystallization processing down to the very end of the value chain in system integration and operations.
Originally a semiconductor physicist, Zhengguo Li spent his early career after graduation in research and production of monocrystalline silicon ingots.
Archie Flores, LONGi Solar’s VP for Corporate Strategy and GM of LONGi Solar US, provides background about the world’s largest monocrystalline silicon wafer manufacturer’s high-efficiency strategy.
Today is May 1 and not April 1 – so we should assume this is not a joke but that this incredible news is real! Incredible news! The lowest offer for the current 800 MW tender of the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) was as low as 2.
