15th February 2012
We continue to test our new Solar Panel Coatings product at our second test site, Philip House in Exeter. Our self-cleaning performance coatings are delivering great results with improved energy production.
Week 23 (15/02/2012)
Mainly dry this week (5 1/2 days) but with slowly improving light conditions. Solar modules with glass coated with nanoShell Solar PV solar panel self-cleaning hydrophobic coating returned 28kwh against 25kwh produced by the non-coated panels. That's a 12.00% improvement and the panels are still increeadibly clean! This gives the coated panels a 12:47% cumulative benefit (93kwh) over the non-coated.
Week 24 (21/02/2012)
Mainly dry again this week and light conditions are improving, the days lengthening and this is reflected in the amount of energy produced by the solar modules. The solar panels coated with nanoShell Solar PV the self-cleaning hydrophobic solar panel glass coating returned 37kwhs whilst the non-coated panels returned 32kwhs. A difference of 5kwhs and an efficency improvement of 15.63%. The cummulative benefit is 12.6% with the coated panels returning an extra 98kwhs in just 24 weeks. Only two kwhs to go to get into the three figures and based on our customer's FiT of approximately 50p per kwh produced the coating has helped generate an extra £49.00 so far. Easily paying for itself in this short time but it will last for another 41/2 years at least! Great value for money.
We are monitoring our test site on a weekly basis and will be publishing the results of our high performance Solar Panel coatings as often as possible.
View the solar panel coating monitoring figures in summary >>
