Bifacial panel made in Chile

• Atamostec, a private-public campaign sustained by Chile's government-run Production Development Corp. as well as a number of commercial companions, has actually established a brand-new module. The group declares that the bifacial panel supplies an added yearly ordinary gain of 11% contrasted to monofacial PERC components with the very same cell modern technology.

Chile's state-run Production Development Corporation (Corfo) has actually created a bifacial solar module in collaboration with the National Solar Energy Institute (Ines) under the French Alternative Energies and also Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and also Germany's ICS Konstanz proving ground.

The "Atamo" module was created by Atacama Module as well as System Technology (Atamostec) a private-public effort sustained by Corfo and also a series of commercial companions, consisting of Ines CEA, ICS Konstant, France's Engie, Chile's Colbun and also Spain's Mondrago Assembly, to name a few.

Atamostec stated it is currently evaluating module efficiency at Corfo's screening area in the Atacama Desert, in north Chile, which provides the very best solar radiation worldwide. "We are still at the advancement stage and also we can not expose way too many information," Atamostec spokesperson Natalia Toro informed pv magazine. "The monocrystalline bifacial PERC heterojunction is being examined an installment with 20 ° disposition as well as single-axis solar tracker."

Atamostec stated the bifacial module supplies an extra yearly ordinary gain of 11% contrasted to monofacial PERC components with the exact same cell modern technology. "This implies that if the information is theorized to a 100 MW large plant, the 'Atamo' panel might create as much as 27 GWh/year of extra power as well as, incorporated with a surveillance system, as much as 112 GWh/year of added power contrasted to a taken care of monofacial photovoltaic plant throughout a regular year," discussed Atamostec CTO Elias Urrejola.

Delfina Munoz, a researcher from Ines, claimed that Atamostec made a sensible technical wager to verify that bifacial innovation-- which is recognized to function well with snow, provided the albedo result-- provides a much greater power return in desert problems than monofacial panels.

"The bifacial components were not established for desert problems just. As a result, these initial information make this alternative feasible for Chile and also for the whole high radiation solar belt on the planet," included María Jose Riquelme, Atamostec's organisation advancement supervisor.

The advancement of the bifacial panel belongs to Corfo's Development of Photovoltaic Solar Energy Technologies for Desert Climates and also High Radiation program, which intends to establish modern technologies fit for dry problems and also high irradiation in locations such as the Atacama Desert.

The program sustains cooperations in between firms as well as innovation focuses that concentrate on used PV system research study. It aids to provide financing for approximately 70% of the complete price of effective projects, with an optimum of $12 million, through a non-refundable aid.