Risen Energy Claims World Record for HJT Module Output Efficiency

Chinese solar module maker Risen Energy has announced that its HJT series solar module called ‘Hyper-ion’ has achieved a maximum power of 741.456W and a module efficiency of 23.89%.

Risen Energy said that the results were verified by TÜV SÜD, a global provider of testing, inspection and certification services. This is an improvement from the previous record of 23.65% module efficiency achieved in December 2021. The company said that this sets a new record for the highest power and highest module efficiency of HJT solar modules.

This improvement in efficiency is due to technological innovations like ultra-thin wafer, zero busbar technology, Hyper-link interconnection and encapsulation material. The module also features a stable temperature coefficient and a high bifaciality of up to 85% with variability of 10%, capable of maintaining its power output above 90% after 30 years of use, as per the firm.

The Risen Energy module is backed by its 100μm ultra-thin cell technology and low-temperature process, resulting in a carbon footprint value (CFP) lower than 400kg eq CO2/kWc which is below the market average.

Even Liu, Senior R&D Director, Risen Energy, commented on this, “As the latest HJT product, Hyper-ion has the best combination of both improvement and reductions – high power and high power generation, high efficiency and reliability, low degradation and low temperature coefficient, low CFP and low LCOE. Risen Energy will continue to innovate and improve our products to promote the era of carbon neutrality.”

In April, 2022, Risen Energy launched a line-up of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) products including Super Top and Super Tile, and its latest heterojunction (HJT) offering, Hyper-ion. The new manufacturing was a result of reduction in carbon use and improved power generation performance that would widen the opportunities for the development and implementation of HJT products, the firm held.

Risen Energy signed an agreement with Ningbo South Coastal Economic Development have for a 15 GW N-type ‘Ultra-Low-Carbon High-efficiency’ hetero-junction cells factory and a 15 GW ‘high-efficiency’ solar module production facility last year.