Nanosolar Unveils Nanosolar Utility Panel™ Technology
By Martin Roscheisen, CEO - September 9, 2009In conjunction with today's inauguration of our panel-assembly serial-production factory, we today also unveiled the technology behind our first product, the Nanosolar Utility Panel™, and its unique features and benefits.
The Nanosolar Utility Panel™ is the industry’s first solar electricity panel specifically designed and developed for utility-scale solar power system deployment.
Through its innovative product design, the panel effectively eliminates the “balance-of-system penalty” that medium-efficient thin panels have conventionally carried relative to higher-efficiency (yet far more expensive) silicon panels.
The IEC-61646 certified Nanosolar Utility Panel™ is electrically and mechanically optimized for utility-scale solar power systems:
- Electrically, it is the industry’s highest-current thin panel, by as much as a factor of six. It is also the industry’s first photovoltaic module certified by TUV for a system voltage of 1500V, or 50% higher than the previously highest certified. Together this enables utility-scale panel array lengths and results in a host of substantial cost savings during the deployment of solar power plants.
- Mechanically, the package used for the panel is distinctly stronger than that of conventional thin-film-on-glass modules, achieving almost twice the mounting span and thus substantially lower mounting cost.
More information about how the Nanosolar Utility Panel™ delivers the industry's lowest total-system cost for solar power plants can be found on our website as well as in detail in our utility panel technology white paper.
