Inside IBC SOLAR

Visit to the IBC SOLAR test facility II: Visual error images

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A walk through our test facility allows you to immerse yourself in the history of photovoltaics. Modules from many generations, some already a decade and a half old, show how technology has changed. Guest author and product manager René Schüler presents special test objects in a blog series and provides background knowledge to cell technologies and typical ageing effects. In the second part of our series he presents delamination, snail traces and yellowing. (more…)

Visit to the IBC SOLAR test facility I: Polycrystalline modules through the ages

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A walk through our test facility allows you to immerse yourself in the history of photovoltaics. Modules from many generations, some already a decade and a half old, show how technology has changed. Guest author and product manager René Schüler presents special test objects in a blog series and provides background knowledge to cell technologies and typical ageing effects. The blog series starts with a comparison between polycrystalline modules from 2004 and 2018. (more…)

Our summer campaign: Life, empowered by the sun!

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Hot, hotter, summer 2018: Even though the heat wave is currently causing many difficulties, one thing is certain: there has never been produced so much solar energy! Perfect conditions for our new campaign “Life, empowered by the sun!”, which we recently launched. (more…)

Supplier portrait: GCL – World market leader and insider’s tip

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Every once in a while we are presenting our suppliers and partners on our blog. Today: World market leader and insider’s tip – GCL is both. In 2017 we have included polycrystalline modules from the Asian manufacturer that is among the seven companies of the “Silicon Module Super League” in our portfolio. (more…)

MENA goes solar: 3rd Regional Partner Summit

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The MENA region (the Middle East and North Africa) is becoming an increasingly important sales market for the German solar industry. The high level of sunlight as well as government support and funding programmes and ambitious climate protection goals are helping the solar market in Arabic-speaking countries to gain momentum. (more…)