Tag: PV modules

  • Soligent now offering Panasonic HIT solar modules

    As one of North America’s top solar distributors, Soligent always goes the extra mile for its dealers, staying ahead of industry trends and looking for new products that can help us advance the adoption of solar energy on a mass market level. With that in mind, Soligent will be offering the 325W HITRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Nanowire breakthrough could boost module efficiencies by 50 percent

    In what could be a major breakthrough for solar energy, Swedish advanced materials start-up Sol Voltaics AB has confirmed the successful alignment and orientation of nanowires in a thin film. The achievement paves the way for photovoltaic (PV) module efficiencies of 27 percent or more — a 50 percent boost in energy conversionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SolarWorld supplying panels for Valley Electric Association project

    SolarWorld is supplying 17.5 MW of its high-efficiency 72-cell solar panels for a project that the Valley Electric Association (VEA) is undertaking in the Mojave Desert town of Pahrump, west of Las Vegas near the Nevada border with California. The project will comprise 51,562 340-watt modules made in SolarWorld’s expanding factoryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Staten Solar goes with Solar Frontier CIS modules for 16 California projects

    Solar Frontier, a CIS solar energy solutions provider, will be installing those CIS modules at 16 solar project sites ranging in size up to 522 kW by Staten Solar, a leading EPC provider in California. These solar PV systems will be located in Tulare and Kern Counties of California’s Central Valley on farmsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The value proposition of AC panels

    DC solar panels have dominated the solar market since the discovery of functional terrestrial solar panels in 1953. Now the old technology is being replaced in the market by the next evolution of the solar panel: the integrated AC solar module. AC modules are gaining traction as a popular panelRead More — Solar Builder magazine