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SunPower Achieves Unprecedented 24.2% Solar Cell Efficiency

SunPower Corp. has produced a full-scale solar cell with a sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency of 24.2 percent at its manufacturing plant in the Philippines. This is a new world record for large area silicon wafers, and has been confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).Improved cell efficiency reduces the levelized cost of energy by increasing the energy production from each wafer manufactured into a SunPower... Read More