Featured in Gigawatt club continues to grow – 07-2019

The importance of staying cool

“Solar cells prefer to operate in a refrigerator,” says UNSW Professor Martin Green. His global research team is now identifying viable ways to cool down solar PV modules while amping up energy production to an unprecedented level.

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Natalie Filatoff

05 Jul 2019

Image: Coolback Company

All evolutionary paths for the world’s current and future solar PV systems are focused on increasing efficiency and maximizing power output. And while progress is being made along many fronts, the difficulty of addressing the irony that solar PV performance and lifetime are reduced by the heat of the sun remains a perennial problem. “There’s …

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