Jan 1, 2025 · Bifacial Gain: Double-glass bifacial solar panels can capture sunlight on both the front and rear sides. The rear glass absorbs reflected light from the ground or surroundings,
Mar 15, 2021 · Reflective coating provides optical enhance effects to bifacial PV modules. Better use of front incident light produces higher power generation. In contrast to the conventional
Nov 1, 2020 · Bifacial photovoltaic (bPV) technology is regarded as a promising alternative, as it can generate more power than conventional mono-facial PV (mPV) technology by absorbing
In contrast to the conventional monofacial photovoltaic (PV) modules, bifacial PV modules yield more electrical energy by utilizing the reflected or scattered light from the ground and surroundings. The energy generation efficiency of bifacial modules is determined by both the front-side and the rear-side output power.
Transmittance loss results in a lower rated power for double-glass modules. Reflective coating provides optical enhance effects to bifacial PV modules. Better use of front incident light produces higher power generation.
The energy yield gains of bifacial PV modules have been well investigated by researchers via the experimental and simulation studies (Asgharzadeh et al., 2018, Janssen et al., 2015, Liang et al., 2019).
Appling the lattice pattern on the rear glass boosts the front-side power by about 1.7%, but lowers the bifaciality factors by about eight percentages from 72% to 64%. The energy yield gain of glass/glass bifacial module is about 6% during the period of investigation.
Our results show that the glass/glass bifacial modules encapsulated with bifacial solar cells provide over 6% more energy yield compared to the glass/backsheet monofacial modules encapsulated with regular monofacial solar cells.
1. Introduction The solar cells with bifacial nature have long been regarded as an effective way to boost power generation by utilizing diffused, scattered and reflected light available to the rear side of field-deployed PV modules assembled with such cells (Guerrero-Lemus et al., 2016).
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