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Explosion of cell and module technology

With half-cut, bifacial, shingle cell, and heterojunction designs being deployed at the scale of hundreds of megawatts, it is an exciting time to be in solar cell and module technology.

By

Christian Roselund

04 Jun 2019

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Meyer Burger’s heterojunction cell line. | Image: Meyer Burger Technology AG

For many years, PV cell and module technology was pretty boring. You would go to a trade show, and it would largely be the same plain vanilla multi- and mono silicon you had seen the year before. A few companies like SunPower, Panasonic and LG had different technologies, but these had been around for years …

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