BP Solar Achieves New World Record For Cell Efficiency

26-Mar-2003
BP Solar announced it has achieved a world record in solar cell efficiency for a 125mm size cell. The 18.3 percent efficiency was verified by the Fraunhofer Institut Solare Energiesysteme in Germany. The 18.3 percent efficiency represents an 11 percent improvement over the 16.5 percent efficiency currently available with Saturn solar cells. Researchers at BP Solar's Technology Center in Sunbury, UK developed the 18.3 percent efficiency cell. Improved efficiency remains the underlying foundation for future BP Solar production of premium solar cells. This new technology will form the basis for the new BP Solar Tres Cantos facility in Madrid, Spain, as well as underpinning efficiency improvements at the existing Alcobendas facility near Madrid.

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