The new 5 MW line in Silicon Valley will produce cells and modules under a new IBC technology from the company that makes the most powerful commercially available silicon solar products.
SunPower has built its business on making the highest efficiency solar products commercially available for the rooftop market, based on its Maxeon back-contact technology. But after years of persistent losses, SunPower is shifting gears, not only in terms of its business approach but its technology.
In late 2015 SunPower unveiled a new module designs based on overlapping cells made from strips of silicon wafers, as a radical departure from its trademark modules based on interdigitated back contact (IBC) cells. However, the company ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...