Tindo has teamed up with unsw on Topcon Solar Tech
The only manufacturer of Australia’s only solar panel, Tindo, is to explore the TopCon solar cell technology in cooperation with the University of New South Wales (unsw), where TopCon originally developed many years ago.
What is TopCon?
TopCon is passivamed for tunnel oxide. It is an advanced solar cell design that improves efficiency by minimizing recombination losses, especially on the back of the cell. Among the other advantages of TopCon is a lower temperature coefficient, which means that it generally works better under hot conditions – especially in a country like Australia.
TopCon was initially developed by Professor Martin Green at Unsw in the early 1980s, but commercial development only began in the 2010s. Professor Green was also behind the development of perc (passivated emitter and rear cells) solar technology at unsw in 1983, which finally became the dominant technology. Perc and TopCon Tech functions in around 90% of all solar panels produced today.
About the Tindo/unsw partnership
The research project is financed by the Trace program for Recycling and Clean Energy (Trace), which is trying to accelerate the integration and benchmark of solar technologies in Australian production under his goals. Trace, a joint venture from Unsw and the University of Newcastle, is supported by the Australian government.
According to Tindo, Topcon can achieve a conversion efficiency of around 27%, while current PERC solar cells cannot achieve more than 25%. TopCon technology is already widespread by the manufacturers of Solar Panels and is still developing. However, there are some concerns in terms of long-term performance, such as the potential for water in and mining rates under moisture conditions.
Up to this point, Perc was the technician of the choice for Tindo and although other TopCon have accepted, it is not something that the company easily occupies.
“TopCon puts on an exciting jumping jump,” said Professor Bram Hoex, who heads the Unsw research team. “To ensure your long -term success, we have to understand its unique features, including its sensitivity to the various environmental pollution.”
Richard Petterson, CEO of Tindo, says that the partnership will optimize the TopCon technology.
“Tindo has its own innovation function for its own design and technical innovation, but we also work with high-ranking research organizations such as ours-is the mix of industry and research that will develop the next generations of solar technology.”
But while Topcon has taken over from PER, a different technology has developed as a serious challenger – the connected backstream (IBC), also known as all back contact (ABC) silicon solar cells. This technology includes all electrical contacts on the back of the solar cell.
IBC again illustrates how long it can take from an Eureka moment to the market and was initially developed at the end of the 1970s. Sunpower (Maxeon) was the first company to be manufactured in 2004 in the trade in IBC solar modules, but it is only in a relatively short time that have joined other manufacturers. While the technology does not come in Australia, there are also more research results on IBC/ABC at Unsw through the collaboration of the university with China Aiko.
Tindo goals
In other recent news from Tindo, the company announced at the end of June that it was selected as a Solar PV supplier for the Bowen Water Pipeline project from Queensland. The project will use 52,174 Tindo 575W Walara Solar modules for a total capacity of 30 MW. The Walara boards of Tindo were launched in 2024, initially for the Home Solar Market.
Another great value for the company was last month when it signed a five-year contract of $ 8.4 million for the export of 15 MW of its solar collectors to Vietnam. In view of the significant existing local module production in Vietnam.
Tindo started the production of Panels in 2011 and opened his new factory in Adelaide in 2021, which now has 60 employees. If you are looking for in the Australly produced solar collectors, Tindo is still the only show in the city-obtained more expensive than the popular Chinese brands of good quality.
Australians, who like to separate from the extra goats, generally seem to be satisfied with their purchase. The reviews of Tindo Solar Panel to Solar odds have an average of 4.7 stars based on 129 reviews.
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