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Tag: PV modules

  • Thin-Film in 2016: Don’t look now, but thin-film PV is positioned for growth

    A narrative has formed around thin-film PV modules that doesn’t totally match the reality. Initially neck and neck with crystalline silicon as the solar industry grew in the ‘90s, some high-profile big bets, headlined by Solyndra, did not pay off. We won’t rehash that old territory, but where previous technologyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Trina Solar says it hit a new mono-crystalline PERC cell efficiency record

    Feels like its been awhile since a module manufacturer touted an efficiency record. The wait is over: Trina Solar Limited announced that its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China set a new world conversion efficiency record of 22.61 percent for a high-efficiency p-type mono-crystalline silicon (c-Si)Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Suniva to start making more high-efficiency solar cells at U.S. headquarters

    Suniva, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells and modules, just expanded its manufacturing capabilities inside its U.S. headquarters, located in Atlanta. The latest expansion increases the company’s Georgia-based manufacturing capacity to 450 MW. This next chapter in the company’s growth brings both an increase in solar cell efficiency and American jobs.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • REC Group to expand PERC module production, development

    REC Group, a European brand of solar panels, is looking to expand its production of high-efficiency Passivated Emitter Rear Contact (PERC) solar cells and start developing that next-generation PERC technology.  To do so, the company ordered three microCELL OTF laser systems from 3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of laser micromachiningRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Aurora Solar tells us how it can improve solar cell manufacturing

    Aurora Solar Technologies provides inline measurement and control technology for the PV manufacturing industry, and the West Vancouver, BC-based company says its solar cell manufacturing technology allows solar cell producers to increase cell power and yield. “On average, 15-25 percent of [solar cell] production is downgraded and sold at or below cost,” says MichaelRead More — Solar Builder magazine