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Guru3D.com » News » Elon Musk From Tesla Reveals Cheaper and More Efficient Solar Panel

Elon Musk From Tesla Reveals Cheaper and More Efficient Solar Panel

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/03/2015 02:36 PM | source: | 11 comment(s)
Elon Musk From Tesla Reveals Cheaper and More Efficient Solar Panel

During a presentation the Guru himself, Elon Musk from Tesla, announced a cheaper to fab and more efficient solar panel. The newly developed panels with be produced for SolarCity first and have an effective 22,04 percent conversion efficiency.

SolarCity Corp on Friday said it had built a solar panel that is the most efficient in the industry at transforming sunlight into electricity, as Reuter reports:

The top U.S. solar installer, which expanded into manufacturing through its acquisition of Silevo last year, will make the panels at a major solar panel factory it is building in Buffalo, New York. That facility will open in 2017. SolarCity, which is backed by Tesla Motors Inc founder Elon Musk, has increasingly moved beyond its primary business of installing solar panels in an effort to keep driving down the cost of going solar. Making its own panels will bring system costs down by 15 to 20 cents a watt, said Chief Executive Lyndon Rive, who added that Friday's announcement should assuage concerns about the company's foray into a new line of business.

"Now that we are going to be making the best module in the world hopefully that addresses anyone's skepticism," Rive said in an interview.

Third-party testing measured the SolarCity panel's efficiency at 22.04 percent, the company said. SunPower Corp , a U.S. panel manufacturer that has long made the most efficient panels in the industry, is currently producing modules with 21.5 percent efficiency on a mass scale. SolarCity is currently producing its panels at a 100 megawatt pilot facility in Fremont, California, near Tesla's factory. SolarCity's $750 million Buffalo facility will ultimately have ten times that capacity.

Still, fast-growing SolarCity will never make enough panels to fulfill its installation needs, Rive said. Currently most of the panels SolarCity installs are made in China by companies including Canadian Solar, Trina Solar and Yingli Green Energy, among others.







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flashmozzg
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#5167789 Posted on: 10/03/2015 05:36 PM
Elon Musk Develops? Seriously? I mean seriously? Not Tesla R&D?

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#5167809 Posted on: 10/03/2015 06:56 PM
If people want solar panels and electric cars to be a true replacement, then wait for the graphene solution which is still probably 5 years away! A Canadian company has already made progress here, SunVault Energy, with electric cars that use graphene supercapacitors that can charge in five minutes! That's a way better alternative than what Tesla R&D are doing with still Lithium based batteries for cars. Also when it comes to solar panels, even if they become extremely efficient you need a better way to store excess electricity for when the sun isn't available and that again is where graphene can be the solution!

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#5167829 Posted on: 10/03/2015 07:40 PM
Spanish made cells can do +30%, sharp as panels going up to 40%, and the german Frauenhofer institute goes up to 46% efficiency...

but sure, if TESLA is doing something, half the performance and its a "game changer"??

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#5167891 Posted on: 10/03/2015 10:53 PM
Spanish made cells can do +30%, sharp as panels going up to 40%, and the german Frauenhofer institute goes up to 46% efficiency...

but sure, if TESLA is doing something, half the performance and its a "game changer"??

I was thinking about that as I read it too. A good friend of mine lives off grid and has a number of 40% efficient (but very expensive) panels too.

I am guessing the key word here is mass manufactured to such scale...

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#5167911 Posted on: 10/03/2015 11:44 PM
Agreed, these must be very reasonably priced quality products knowing Elon's way to do things.

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