Photon Magazine Solar Panel Ranking 2017

Measuring the yield from solar modules was the first test photon developed.

Photon magazine solar panel ranking 2017. There are more than a hundred different brands of solar panels and other solar equipment on the market at any given point. In the field of solar module measurement it has carried out more than 6 000 measurements. Ranking all brands that participated in photon lab testing had their solar panels installed since january 2011 and have been ranked accordingly after completing a full year of measurement up to january 2014 2 years after. Finding the best solar panels for your home can feel like a daunting challenge.

In the meantime results are available for around 200 different module types for the period up to june 2015. The measurements have been paused in 2016 and 2017 but are to be resumed in 2018. Photon laboratory is focused primarily on performing yield measurements under standard test conditions stc evaluating weak light behavior and determining temperature coefficients. Each year photon does year long live tests of solar panels of different brands under identical conditions and ranks them based on relative yield or performance ratio.

Photon profi german photon das solarstrom magazin german photon le magazine du photovoltaïque french. 6 minutes last updated on july 12 2020. More info in our myphoton section. The ranking clearly shows which brand s outperform s the others.

In this article we ll discuss how solar panel manufacturers stack up to one another and who makes the best solar panels. The photon laboratory started these measurements in 2004 and they quickly became the world s largest test series of their kind to date. As a subscriber you will receive a link per email to download the pdf edition of our magazine every time a new issue gets published. The test series quickly became the world s largest of its kind.

Solar stocks jump by nine percent 09 08 2020 14 47 at 2 180 points the photon photovoltaic stock index ppvx was 9 1 percent higher last friday than in the previous week and reached a new. Solar module yield measurement in a comparative measurement the yield of more than 130 module types is measured on photon s outdoor test fi eld www photon info laboratory check the monthly test results in. The latest news you may find in the news section or by subscribing to our free daily newsletter. With production and capacity figures provided by industry analyst ihs markit pv magazine provides a rundown of the top 10 crystalline silicon module manufacturers based on 2017 production data.

Photon has developed a measuring device for this purpose which records the current voltage characteristic curve of a module every second.