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SunPower’s solar panels break world record
Posted on 01 March 2016.
SunPower claims to have the most efficient panels in the world.
The American solar energy company announced that it can produce highly efficient solar panels that can convert 22.8 percent of the sun’s light into electricity and can generate 70 percent more energy in the same space, compared to less efficient panels, over the first 25 years. According to SunPower, that is a new world record, reported Fortune.
Panels with greater efficiency use less material.
The more efficiency solar panels have, the fewer materials are required to make them. The reduced amount of material required in a panel’s construction means that it requires less space when being installed. In other words, rooftops with highly efficient panels need fewer panels than those covered in less-efficient ones. However, in spite of having less panels, the same amount of energy is generated.
The average solar panel has between 15 percent and 18 percent efficiency, but SunPower says that, during the course of an installed panel’s
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