Hi.How efficienent are solar panels? I mean, suppose we install a kw panel.. Wil it produce 5kw in 5 hours of good sun light?Or like if its 80 percent efficient, wil it produce 4kw and so on.Also, do the chinese solar panels give the same results as compared with panels from other countries?I live in india, so we get plenty of sunlight during the day.Thanks
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The panels themselves efficiency are 5 to 8 percent at converting sun energy to electicity currently.But as what you said above,the conversion efficienc is about 70%，so a KW solar panel can produce 3.5KW in 5 hours,The solar panels of China are compared comparably to other contries.The highest efficiency of 24% is rare,they are not widely avaliable.
Efficiency of photovoltaic panels usually describes the ratio between the energy of the sunlight falling onto the panels and the electric energy you get out. This number is, for commercially available panels today, usually in the range of 2...9 %. What you are asking is something else. The power from the panel depends on the light falling on it. A panel rated for kw peak will deliver that kw under a clear sky, with the sun orthogonally above the panel. For a fixed mounted panel, that is true (at most) for two days every year at noon. At any other time, the output is less. Therefore (at least for the area I live in), some people build databases (and Excel tools) in which the various variables are considered: - inclination of the panel - orientation of the panel - average sunshine duration during a year Plugging in these numbers, I get theoretically for my roof an electricity output of just over 000 kWh/year per installed kWpeak of collector power. If you set up a tracking panel (following the sun), the energy output of the panel will be higher, but so will be the cost for the mounting and the area needed to set up the system.
