Solar Power World named the REC #Alpha solar module as one of the "Top Solar Products 2019". Good choice. With #heterojunction and #smartwire technologies as well as "twin panel" design, the Alpha module is the most innovative and powerful 60-cell module worldwide.
Commercial and utility-scale projects benefit from having more space — more room for larger arrays and more powerful 72-cell solar panels. We’re seeing many 72-cell models pushing 425 W, easily. But on residential projects, space constraints still call for 60-cell panels, and installers and end-customers still want those big-number power outputs.
REC Group released a solution with the world’s most powerful 60-cell solar panel. Although it only reaches 380 W, that still represents a 20% increase of power over conventional 60-cell panels. The REC Alpha Series continues the company’s pioneering “twin panel” design, using 120 half-cut cells, but this time REC turned to heterojunction technology (HJT). HJT combines the best qualities of crystalline silicon with those from amorphous silicon thin-film to produce a high-power hybrid cell. HJT cells are what pushed the 60-cell Alpha module to the highest power ratings in the industry (REC’s legacy TwinPeak 60-cell module series using half-cut PERC cells hits 330 W).
REC is very confident in HJT, announcing in August that it would increase its production capacity of the new Alpha series from 600 MW to multiple gigawatts at its Singapore manufacturing facility. The Alpha module reaches 21.7% efficiency and is backed by REC’s 25-year product warranty and a 25-year performance warranty that guarantees 92% of initial power at year 25. REC drew a line in the sand by investing in HJT, and other manufacturers are sure to follow suit to stay competitive in the growing residential market.
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