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Two sides of the same coin

Bifacial modules: The release of bifacial modules in 2016 by major players including LG and SolarWorld indicate that the technology is picking up steam, but barriers must still be overcome.

By

Christian Roselund

06 Feb 2017

SolarWorld’s Hillsboro facililty in Oregon. | SolarWorld

The idea that one could generate electricity from both sides of a PV cell is not new. And while single-sided PV cells have always been the dominant form, given the nature of crystalline silicon PV there is no fundamental technical reason why you cannot use both sides of a solar module to generate electricity, with …

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