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February 29, 2016
29 Feb 2016

Prism Solar Bifacial System Installed at the NM RTC

New bifacial photovoltaic (PV) cell technology makes it possible to harvest sunlight from both sides of a PV module, resulting in significant energy gains at future larger production scales with minimal cost increases. Sandia recently installed a bifacial solar PV system, built by Prism Solar, at the New Mexico Regional Test Center—a test center funded by DOE and managed by Sandia that is working to improve models of PV project performance and reliability in a variety of configurations and environments. The collaborative research project will quantify bifacial energy gains as a function of array design parameters.

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February 29, 2016
29 Feb 2016

Norwich Technologies and the VT RTC Featured in TV News Story

In December 2015, Norwich Technologies hoisted by crane a 5.3kW photovoltaic (PV) system onto a roof at the Vermont Regional Test Center (RTC)—a test center funded by DOE and managed by Sandia that focuses on PV performance data and supports collaborative research on integrating of PVs into Vermont’s electrical grid. As demonstrated, the pre-assembled PV meta-module system can be installed and operational in a matter of hours, reducing onsite time, on-roof work, and installation costs.  Sandia’s rigorous analysis of the installation process, and its reliability monitoring over the next three years, could drive future system improvements and open new markets for plug-and-play PV installations.

On February 18, 2016, this news story features Norwich Technologies and the installation of the system at the Vermont RTC.  This system is a three way partnership between Norwich Technologies, Solar World Americas, and Chilicon Power.

Hoisting first metamodule

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