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SunPower: Roof Tile, Solar Cell, Photovoltaic Module, Nellis Solar Power Plant, First Solar, Solar Power, Solar Shingles

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! SunPower Corporation designs and manufactures high-efficiency silicon solar cells, roof tiles and solar panels based on a silicon all-back-contact solar cell invented at Stanford University. SunPower Corporation is publicly traded on the NASDAQ as SPWRA and SPWRB. SunPower Corporation is a component of the Dow Jones Oil and Gas Index DJUSEN.SunPower 125mm-wide single-crystal silicon solar cells are based on a rear-contact design that eliminates front-side metallization, maximizes the working cell area, eliminates redundant wires and makes automated production easier. Forming the junction at the rear of the cell, combined with a clever surface treatment, allows it to trap and convert much more of the available photons into mobile electrons - yielding a jump in efficiency. The cell employs several other tricks to boost efficiency, including an oxide passivation layer on the backside to deny regions for unwanted hole-electron recombination.

Illustrated U.S. Roof Tile Patent Applications;2001-2008 (U.S. Patents)

A compilation of U.S. Patent Applications related to roofing tiles; hatschek processes; solar; and concrete tiles and shingles. Includes abstracts, selected illustrations and other pertinent information sufficient to gain a meta-understanding of the field.


Cooler tile-roofed buildings with near-infrared-reflective non-white coatings [An article from: Building and Environment]

This digital document is a journal article from Building and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Owners of homes with pitched roofs visible from ground level often prefer non-white roofing products for aesthetic considerations. Non-white, near-infrared-reflective architectural coatings can be applied in situ to pitched concrete or clay tile roofs to reduce tile temperature, building heat gain, and cooling power demand, while simultaneously improving the roof's appearance. Scale-model measurements of building temperature and heat-flux were combined with solar and cooling energy use data to estimate the effects of such cool-roof coatings in various California climates. Under typical conditions-e.g., 1kWm^-^2 summer afternoon insolation, R-11 attic insulation, no radiant barrier, and a 0.3 reduction in solar absorptance-absolute reductions in roof surface temperature, attic air temperature, and ceiling heat-flux are about 12, 6.2K, and 3.7Wm^-^2, respectively. For a typical 1500ft^2(139m^2) house with R-11 attic insulation and no radiant barrier, reducing roof absorptance by 0.3 yields whole-house peak power savings of 230W in Fresno, 210W in San Bernardino, and 210W in San Diego. The corresponding absolute and fractional cooling energy savings are 92kWhyr^-^1 (5%), 67kWhyr^-^1 (6%), and 8kWhyr^-^1 (1%), respectively. These savings are about half those previously reported for houses with non-tile roofs. With these assumptions, the statewide peak cooling power and annual cooling energy reductions would be 240MW and 63GWhyr^-^1, respectively. Statewide energy savings would reduce annual emissions from California power plants by 35kton CO"2, 1.1ton NO"x, and 0.86ton SO"x. The economic value of cooling energy savings is well below the cost of coating a tile roof, but the simple payback times for using cool pigments in a roof tile coating are modest (5-7yr) in the warm climates of Fresno and San Bernardino.

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