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Trina have set a record 19.86% aperture efficiency for polycrystalline.<\/p><\/div>\n

Trina Solar<\/a> announced a new world record for solar panel efficiency on Tuesday. The announcement was made via a press release<\/a> that was mostly comprised of words.<\/p>\n

But that wasn’t all it contained.\u00a0 Oh no, this press release was far too important to get by just using them. It also contained numbers, punctuation, and percentage signs.<\/p>\n

Exactly what the particular arrangement of all these ingredients they poured into their press release actually means is a little tricky to work out. But, for your elucidation, I shall now attempt reading comprehension and I am not even going to use a net.<\/p>\n

19.86% Efficiency – A New World Record For Polysilicon<\/h2>\n

Trina Solar has achieved a new world record for efficiency of a polycrystalline solar panel of 19.86%.\u00a0 This is a definite improvement on the previous record of 19.5%<\/a> set by Hanwha Q Cells in June.<\/p>\n

This may not seem terribly impressive compared to the record for monosilicon<\/a> of 24.1%<\/a>, but I’m impressed because polysilicon<\/a> is cheaper and so doesn’t need to have as high an efficiency to be competitive on price per watt.<\/p>\n

Some efficiency snobs are not impressed with polysilicon’s lower efficiency and consider it to be monosilicon’s blue haired stepchild (which in Australian parlance would make it a red haired stepchild) and consider it beneath them.\u00a0 But they’d probably find it works a lot better if they put it above them, like on their roof.<\/p>\n

Bad News – It Is Aperture Efficiency<\/h2>\n

Unfortunately, the 19.86% record is for aperture<\/a> efficiency.\u00a0 If you look up the dictionary definition of aperture then this does not seem to make a lot of sense, as an aperture is simply a hole.\u00a0 How can a hole be more or less efficient at being a hole?\u00a0 Sure, some people might say that Toowoomba<\/a> is a very efficient aperture, but they are just being mean.<\/p>\n

But in this context aperture simply means the area of the panel that is covered in solar cells and does not include the frame.\u00a0 This means the actual efficiency of the solar panel will be about 6% less which would make it roughly 18.7%.<\/p>\n

It’s A Honey Plus Panel<\/h2>\n

The efficiency record was achieved using a Trina Solar Honey Plus panel.\u00a0 Trina Solar first introduced them back in 2012.\u00a0 They were a leader in efficiency then and it looks like they are working hard to keep leading.<\/p>\n

A standard Honey panel has 60 solar cells in it while the press release says the record breaking panel had 120.\u00a0 They achieved this doubling by cutting their standard sized solar cells in half.\u00a0 This wasn’t done to win a prize for having the most cells in a panel.\u00a0 (That’s already been taken.)\u00a0 It is instead a technique<\/a> for eking out a little more performance.<\/p>\n

Also included in the bag of tricks to boost efficiency was a thing called Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell or PERC.\u00a0 What kind of a thing is that?\u00a0 Why, it is a thing that perks up the performance of your solar panel of course!\u00a0 I would look it up on the internet for you, but in the introduction I said I would not use a net, so I cannot.<\/p>\n

Trina Solar also said they used highly efficient light trapping, which is very interesting because it made me wonder how many solar panel manufacturers out there are still using highly inefficient light trapping?<\/p>\n

Will It Be On The Market Soon?<\/h2>\n

I assume Trina will be in a hurry to get the technology used in their record breaking panel into production.\u00a0 There are no prizes for failing to beat the competition in business, unless you count a sudden unplanned and unpaid increase in leisure time as a prize.\u00a0 But there is always going to be a lag.\u00a0 Making changes to a solar panel fabrication line is not easy.<\/p>\n

Currently the best polysilicon Honey panel available is around 17.1% efficient.\u00a0 That would give it an aperture efficiency of around 18.8%.\u00a0 So at the moment there is about a one percentage point lag between a panel you can buy and what they have tested in the lab.\u00a0 This gap may get smaller in time, but I doubt it will get much larger.<\/p>\n

Find out which solar panels are the most efficient in Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n

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