Both sides now: Optimal bifaciality with silicon heterojunction solar cells

By Adrien Danel, Julien Eymard, Vincent Barth, Mathieu Tomassini, Eric Gerritsen, Armand Bettinelli & Charles Roux, CEA, LITEN,
Department of Solar Technologies, INES, Grenoble, France

This paper discusses, at both the cell and the module level, the balance between the advantages and drawbacks of increasing the cell bifaciality from a typical value of 90% towards 100%, or decreasing it towards that of monofacial cells (0%).

Both sides now: Optimal bifaciality with silicon heterojunction solar cells

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Photovoltaics International Volume 45

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