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Bifacial testing sites multiply

Bifacial solar panel performance has become such a hot pursuit this year that there are now at least four competing field test sites ramping up in the United States, each matching a different set of trackers and panels. The four test projects include DNV GL, Soltec, NREL and Sandia, and initial data is expected by late 2019, once a year’s data has been collected.

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pv magazine

15 Jan 2019

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A new wave of bifacial module testing is complementing years of research in Europe and Japan. The primary goal of all the tests is to validate the predictive software performance model used to rate the bifacial panels, so that buyers can have confidence that a given factory flash test value for albedo, or ground-reflected light, …

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