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New solar module squeezes more power from every square foot, setting world record

With less of the panel’s active area blocked, more of the module can be used to produce electricity.
PV Tech

Fraunhofer ISE raises III-V germanium module efficiency to 34.4%

Fraunhofer ISE has increased the performance of its III-V germanium solar module from 34.2% to 34.4% using shingle-matrix ...
Power Engineering

First Solar achieves world record 18.6 percent thin film module conversion efficiency

First Solar, Inc. today announced it has set a world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module conversion efficiency, achieving 18.6 percent aperture efficiency for an advanced full ...
PV Tech

Record number of manufacturers and failures in Kiwa PVEL’s Module Reliability Scorecard

In its 10th edition of the Module Reliability Scorecard, Kiwa PVEL added a new hail testing category. Image: Kiwa PVEL A record of 53 manufacturers and 388 module types have been named “Top Performers ...
Business Wire

Kyocera’s New “On-Board Optics Module” Achieves World-Record Bandwidth, Reduces Power Consumption for Data Centers

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto)(TOKYO:6971) today announced it has developed an On-Board Optics Module that achieves world-record bandwidth of 512 Gbps.