CEC’s Kane Thornton: rooftop and utility PV in Australia is capable of 6GW a year. Image: CEC.

For the past ten years, visibility on the ‘book’ part of the PV book-to-bill has become an invisible metric. Image: Trina Solar.

The US residential solar market saw its fifth consecutive record for both customer additions and quarterly installations in Q2 of this year as high energy prices and inflationary pressures caused demand to spike. Within this, the residential loan market continued to dominate but longer-term the market can expect some changes following the passage of the US'US$369 billion Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

People who work in solar industry may hear about double 85%test,it's strict material,workmanship test to show the panels can still work properly or has longer lifespan in extreme climate.

Nowadays,flexible solar panel is more and more widely used,with SunPower back contact cells or conventional solar cells,the SunPower back contact cell flexible solar panel is the most popular in the market.It has unique back contact cells and higher cell efficiency.Flexible solar panels are for camping,RV rooftop,marine,boat,yacht,different application will differ in installtion as well.