The company’s Honey Plus multi-crystalline silicon module is composed of 60 high-efficiency Honey Plus multi-crystalline silicon cells (156×156mm2), fabricated with advanced technologies including back surface passivation, local back surface field and half-cell module technologies. According to Trina Solar, the module has set a new module efficiency record of 19.14 percent with an aperture area of 1.515 m2. The record was independently confirmed by the National Centre of Supervision and Inspection on Solar Photovoltaic Product Quality (CPVT) in Wuxi, China.
Trina is now actively mass-producing the Honey Plus solar cells, although the half-cell module technology is not currently part of the Honey Plus products, but will be incorporated into them at a later date.
“We are very pleased to announce these new exciting efficiency results achieved by Trina Solar's researchers at the State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology” said Dr. Pierre Verlinden, Vice-President and Chief Scientist of Trina Solar. “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that a multi-crystalline Silicon PV module reaches an efficiency higher than 19 percent. It demonstrates that multi-crystalline Silicon PV modules can reach an efficiency level that was reserved to the most efficient solar cells before, such as mono-crystalline IBC or heterojunction cells.
Dr Verlinden added that the achievement is the result of a very close collaboration among Trina Solar’s silicon crystallization, solar cell and module scientists along with a focus on innovation and the manufacture of cutting-edge solar power products and technologies.
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