{"id":203485,"date":"2025-01-10T04:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/enhanced-tandem-solar-modules-promise-lower-costs-and-higher-efficiency"},"modified":"2025-01-10T04:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T10:47:10","slug":"enhanced-tandem-solar-modules-promise-lower-costs-and-higher-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/enhanced-tandem-solar-modules-promise-lower-costs-and-higher-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"Enhanced tandem solar modules promise lower costs and higher efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/enhanced-tandem-solar-modules-promise-lower-costs-and-higher-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Increasing module efficiency and expanding manufacturing capacity play complementary roles in reducing costs of metal halide perovskite\/silicon tandem solar modules, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Each cost lever can play a similar role depending on a manufacturer\u2019s ability to scale up and improve module performance.<\/p>\n<p>Most photovoltaic (PV) modules manufactured today are based on single-junction <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>. By pairing silicon with another <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cell+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cell material<\/a> such as metal halide perovskites (MHPs), thus creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/tandem\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tandem<\/a>, manufacturers can create a solar module that can convert more sunlight to electricity than using silicon alone.<\/p>\n<p>This tandem technology is still in the early stages, and there are multiple options being pursued to integrate MHPs and silicon, with a lot of unknowns in terms of cost and performance. To address this gap, the researchers built a manufacturing cost model that combines laboratory processes with existing equipment and supply chains to compare different possible approaches at scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Increasing module efficiency and expanding manufacturing capacity play complementary roles in reducing costs of metal halide perovskite\/silicon tandem solar modules, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Each cost lever can play a similar role depending on a manufacturer\u2019s ability to scale up and improve module performance. Most [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}