Featured in 50 Shades of Future PV – 04-2015

Double trouble

Flashing bifacial devices: Solar modules employing bifacial cells feature enhanced efficiency and power output, but currently there seems to be a lot of confusion in the industry as to how to measure their efficiency and output. A working group to develop standards for bifacial measurement for both cells and modules in production was formed after the bifiPV 2014 workshop in Chambery, France.

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Jonathan Gifford

13 Apr 2015

It was big, unconventional and powerful. At last year’s Solar Power International trade show in Las Vegas, Silicon Valley startup Sunpreme unveiled a module unlike any other. With 96 cells, assembled into a glass/glass module, the Sunpreme GxB 500 W module has an STC output of 503 W. Drawing on Las Vegas’ long history as a location for …

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