Category: Solar Panel Efficiency

How To Clean Solar Panels — That Once-In-A-While Maintenance


Image by Getty Images via Daylife Every once in a while, you’ll need to remove the dust from the surface of your solar panels. Since your solar panels are probably installed on your roof, away from convenient reach, procrastination happens. Yet it is important to remove anything that may block sunlight from reaching the photovoltaic [...]

Friday January 8th, 2010 in Solar Panel Efficiency | 1 Comment »

Solar Panel Efficiency


Solar panel efficiency has been a subject of intense interest since the turn of the century. The first solar panel achieved an efficiency of about 6 percent. This was a major breakthrough in science as we rolled out our first commercial photovoltaic device in history. After the successful use of solar panels on spacecrafts, interest [...]

Sunday December 6th, 2009 in Solar Panel Efficiency | 1 Comment »