“Four years ago, that was at 50% and it’s steadily increased since,” said Tristan Erion-Lorico. Image: Kiwa PVEL. A total of 83% of module manufacturers have had at least one test failure in the Kiwa ...
JinkoSolar’s n-type TOPCon modules have been found to deliver significantly higher energy yield per watt compared to n-type BC modules during a three-month field test. The field test, conducted by TÜV ...
According to Inlyte, the tested unit incorporates what it describes as the world’s largest sodium metal chloride battery ...
The conversion efficiency of the solar cells or the power of the photovoltaic modules are measured under the standard conditions: AM 1.5G spectrum, 1000 W/m2, and the temperature at 25 °C. However, in ...
A 300-cubic-meter inflatable module exceeded NASA safety margins by more than 20% in a recent burst test. Credit: Sierra Space LONDON — Sierra Space has completed a second full-scale burst test of an ...
Universal Hydrogen has run its hydrogen-fuel-cell propulsion system on hydrogen supplied from one of its proprietary storage tanks, a milestone the company says helps demonstrate the feasibility of ...
Catastrophic-type glass breakage in PV modules. Image: Valentin, D. et al. 2022, “Failure investigation of a solar tracker due to wind-induced torsional galloping”. In recent years PV modules have ...
NASA's Apollo 5 mission launched on Jan. 22, 1968 and marked the first test flight of the Lunar Module that would eventually carry astronauts to the moon. See photos from the historic mission here!
NI (National Instruments) has introduced a new generation of open, FPGA (field-programmable-gate-array)-based PXI (peripheral-component-interconnect extensions for instrumentation) modules. The ...