Solar manufacturers are facing rising cost pressure as silver paste now accounts for up to 30% of total cell production costs. OPIS analyst Hanwei Wu tells pv magazine that module producers currently ...

An international research team has evaluated three air-based cooling methods for photovoltaic panels. They investigated, in particular, forced convection PV (forced-PV), free convection with finned ...

Images from PV ModuleTech Europe 2024. Image: Solar Media. Many European PV project developers face a challenging confluence of events: while PV module prices are expected to rise, with an end to a ...

Scientists in Switzerland have conducted techno-economic analysis of perovskite solar module manufacturing costs in terms of levelized cost of energy and have found that these products could be ...

Figure 1. Enertis Applus+ technicians performing terrestrial nighttime EL inspection on a PV plant (left), while an aerial night-time EL inspection is being conducted using a drone (right). Image: ...