efficiency

Featured Stanford solar professor
Stanford researchers working on rooftop PV array that also cools...

Stanford electrical engineer Shanhui Fan wants to revolutionize energy-producing rooftop arrays. “We’ve built the first device t...

November 13, 2018
News JA Solar
JA Solar sets new wattage record for 60-cell mono-Si PV...

JA Solar Holdings Co. says the output power of its 60-cell PV modules assembled by mono-Si PERC cells has exceeded now 325 W. The actual out...

December 13, 2017
News Suntech DC solar modules
Suntech reports 20 percent conversion efficiency of multicrystalline silicon cell

Suntech, one of the world’s leading solar modules manufacturers recently announced that its highest mass production conversion efficie...

January 13, 2017
News Trinasolar
Trina Solar says it hit a new mono-crystalline PERC cell...

Feels like its been awhile since a module manufacturer touted an efficiency record. The wait is over: Trina Solar Limited announced that its...

December 19, 2016
News silicon solar cell efficiency
Researchers exceed the theoretical limit of silicon solar cells (hit...

So, get this: Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the Austrian company EV Group (EVG) say the...

November 11, 2016
News Panasonic solar solutions
Panasonic breaks module conversion efficiency record by full percentage point

Panasonic Corp. is the latest module manufacturer to break the efficiency record. The company reports it has achieved a photovoltaic module ...

March 2, 2016