[RE-wrenches] CIS mods

Dave Click daveclick at fsec.ucf.edu
Mon Feb 18 22:41:00 PST 2013


This could just be due to the better temperature coefficient, or maybe 
they do slightly better than cSi at lower irradiance levels?

Solar Frontier CIS: -0.31%/degC
SolarWorld poly: -0.45%/degC

I don't know enough about CIS to comment on the light soaking.

On 2013/2/18 8:36, Marco Mangelsdorf wrote:
> Aloha,
>
> Solar Frontier in Japan, the maker of copper-indium-selenium (CIS) mods,
> claims that their product produces more kWhs per kW installed than
> crystalline silicon.
>
> http://www.solar-frontier.com/eng/cis/index.html  If you go to the
> Softbank Field Results on the right tabs area you can download a 4-page
> PDF report.
>
> I’m wondering if this is a hot-out-of-the-box phenomenon similar to some
> other non-cSi products and that after X months in the field the output
> stabilizes at a lower level.
>
> Anyone have any idea or experience with this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> marco
>
>
>
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