Back side of perovskite panel achieves more than 90 per cent of the efficiency of the front side

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      Yeah… they’ve been standard for years now. I believe the uplift on a fixed tilt array on grass is approx 5 to 10%.

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    Bifacial panels have been a thing for several years, mostly in utility-scale solar installations.

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    …harvests reflected sunlight hitting the back of the device, offering an unconventional route to producing higher energy yields for less space and cost.

    Less cost seems probable. Less space really does not. Gonna probably need some mirrors to reflect onto that back surface, and it’s still going to require the same amount of incident area of solar radiation.

    Mirrors are pretty cheap, though. So seems like a win.

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      From the reflection of the sunlight! Light bounces around everything and everywhere, so while it’s not direct sunlight, it’s still light. It generates less than the sun facing one but it’s still more power.