TY - JOUR
T1 - Historical Analysis of Champion Photovoltaic Module Efficiencies
AU - Kurtz, Sarah
AU - Repins, Ingrid
AU - Metzger, Wyatt K.
AU - Verlinden, Pierre J.
AU - Huang, Susan
AU - Bowden, Stuart
AU - Tappan, Ian
AU - Emery, Keith
AU - Kazmerski, Lawrence L.
AU - Levi, Dean
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 17, 2017; accepted December 24, 2017. Date of publication February 14, 2018; date of current version February 16, 2018. This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency under Contract DE-AC36-08GO28308 with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and in part by Renewable Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office. (Corresponding author: Sarah Kurtz.) S. Kurtz, I. Repins, W. K. Metzger, I. Tappan, K. Emery, L. L. Kazmer-ski, and D. Levi are with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401 USA (e-mail: Sarah.Kurtz@nrel.gov; ingrid.repins@nrel.gov; wyatt.metzger@nrel.gov; iantappan022@gmail.com; keith.emery@nrel.gov; solarpvkaz@gmail.com; dean.levi@nrel.gov).
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PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - Champion photovoltaic (PV) cell and module efficiencies have been reported in Progress in PV since 1993. Following the evolution of these efficiencies enables researchers to track the progress of various technologies. National Renewable Energy Laboratory has maintained a historical chart of the champion cell efficiencies, but has not published a similar chart of champion module efficiencies. Here, we analyze champion module efficiencies and compare them to champion cell efficiencies to better understand technology trends over the last three decades, highlighting that, in some cases, module efficiencies exceed 90% of cell efficiencies. Recommendations are provided on how to change the data collection and reporting for champion efficiencies to increase the value of these records.
AB - Champion photovoltaic (PV) cell and module efficiencies have been reported in Progress in PV since 1993. Following the evolution of these efficiencies enables researchers to track the progress of various technologies. National Renewable Energy Laboratory has maintained a historical chart of the champion cell efficiencies, but has not published a similar chart of champion module efficiencies. Here, we analyze champion module efficiencies and compare them to champion cell efficiencies to better understand technology trends over the last three decades, highlighting that, in some cases, module efficiencies exceed 90% of cell efficiencies. Recommendations are provided on how to change the data collection and reporting for champion efficiencies to increase the value of these records.
KW - PV systems
KW - Photovoltaic (PV) cells
KW - technology management
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U2 - 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2794387
DO - 10.1109/JPHOTOV.2018.2794387
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042065558
SN - 2156-3381
VL - 8
SP - 363
EP - 372
JO - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
JF - IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics
IS - 2
ER -