New module technologies: LHS, half-cut, MBB

The terms Light Harvesting Strings (LHS), half-cut (HC) cells and multi-busbar (MBB) are constantly appearing in the current discussion on photovoltaic modules. They promise higher yields and higher efficiencies. Our guest author René Schüler explains what this is all about. (more…)

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

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

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…)

IBC SOLAR Turkey launches a new solar chapter

Our colleagues in Turkey are well acquainted with large-scale PV plants. Thanks to a national franchisee network, IBC SOLAR Turkey is able to work on several projects simultaneously. With the completion of a rooftop project in Mersin, our regional company is now launching a new solar chapter in Turkey. (more…)

Lodge fun and all about surface pressure at the 1st Regional Partner Summit

What expertise do we offer our Premium Partners? And how can we address the individual characteristics of the different markets? Our experts will answer these questions with a new series of conferences named IBC SOLAR Regional Partner Summits. The first of these was held in the Alpine republic of Switzerland. (more…)