"The solar industry has long needed a more rigorous approach to hail testing," said RETC president and CEO Cherif Kedir. "The ...

Every solar panel company makes bold claims about its panel efficiency, maximum wattage availability, temperature coefficient and other specs in optimal conditions. Anyone who does product testing ...

When looking at integrating a photovoltaic solar panel into a project, the naive assumption would be that you simply point the panel into the general direction of where the Sun is, and out comes gobs ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VDE Americas and RETC, part of the VDE Group, today introduced the Hail Resiliency Curve (HRC) Test, a groundbreaking test protocol designed to evaluate solar panel ...

Voltage Pro Solar specializes in residential and commercial grid-tied solar and battery backup. It offers products from a variety of brands, including Aptos Solar Technology, Enphase Energy, LG ...

Japan’s Xsol says its new monocrystalline PV modules offer 275 W of power output and an efficiency rating of 20.3%. They measure 1,760 mm × 768 mm × 30 mm and can be installed in two-panel rows.

The technical answer (bear with us) is that the output of a residential solar panel can be anywhere from 100 to 500 watts, depending on the capacity of the equipment and its operating conditions. Most ...

Researchers are studying whether solar energy systems can operate alongside farming without removing land from agricultural production. Charles Gould, a bioenergy educator with Michigan State ...