Designs

[era1]

With the advent in solar technology in Poly, Mono and now PERC and output figures rising all the time, what does everyone feel is now the theoretical maximum output from, let's say a panel sized 1650mmx1000mm using either 5",6",7" or half cell designs?

My old panels in the back garden are this size and rated at 265w, but technology has moved on.

Obviously there are newer designs out there, but the sizes of these new panels seem to be getting rather large.

With the standard formula of 1000w/sqm input to panels (STC), what are the possibilities of creating a 1650mmx1000mm single panel that could deliver close to 1kW output?

Really interested to hear your thoughts.

 

[BentleyJ]

Even the best triple junction cells are only in the 40% conversion efficiency range. With a panel size of 1.65 sqm that's still only 660W. Poly and Mono commercially available panels are about half that, 20 to 22%. What you are suggesting would require a panel efficiency of 62.5%. Probably not going to happen.

 

[era1]

Thank you for the input