Make electricity and heat with one device: hybrid solar technology
I made this animation showing how Naked Energy s ( ) hybrid solar technology works. Regarding PV Cell Efficiency at High Temperatures, Nicholas Simmons from Naked Energy has this to say: PV cells regularly get to very high temperatures. If you return to your car on a hot summers day you know how hot it can be. A conventional PV module traps the cells behind glass and lets them bake in the sun. When a solar panel is made the temperatures used in the lamination process go up to something like 150C. As mentioned the efficiency of a solar cell drops off as temperature rises this is known as the temperature coefficient and is published on the data sheets that go with PV modules. A conventional solar module has no way of losing heat other than through convection, but at the height of summer with no breeze and high ambient temperatures there is very little cooling going on. There is a lot of academic research out there discussing this. The virtuPVT heat excha
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