Feb 5, 2012

World's Most Powerful Solar-Power Panels - Forbes

“The battery isn’t the problem,” ... “I could buy a dozen more batteries and I would still have the same problem. I need better solar panels.”

Thanks to the good people at Solar Plaza, an information portal for the international solar photovoltaic (PV) industry, people ... may find the search for the perfect solar panel less time consuming than it was in the past.

Solar Plaza identified the 1o most efficient poly-crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic modules available on the market today based on product datasheets and other publicly available sources of information, which are listed below.

The most-efficient solar module on the market today is sold by Solland Solar, a start-up company founded in Holland in 2003 near Aachen, Germany. More specifically, the “Sunweb” module sold by Solland Solar takes the top spot with an efficiency of 16%.  The Solland Solar module is made out of poly-crystalline silicon solar PV cells. This is not always the most efficient or otherwise suitable solar-cell technology.

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