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RELIABILITY OF TPEDGE MODULES SUCCESSFULLY TESTED
Bystronic
THREE YEAR STUDY OF
PROTOTYPE PHOTOVOLTAIC
MODULES FINDS BENEFITS
OF LOWERED COST AND
GREATER RESISTANCE TO
THE ELEMENTS AND AGEING
he Fraunhofer ISE glass machines and sys- glass panes. TPedge elimi- opment of a Technology
mounted 70 TPedge tems. TPedge modules are nates the need for tradi- for Edge Sealed Solar PV
T modules on the fa- edge sealed, double glass tional encapsulation foils Modules,” the Fraunhofer
çade of a laboratory build- PV modules that have a and the module frames so ISE has cooperated with
ing and subsequently put high degree of similarity to that both material costs and Bystronic in the techno-
these to successful use for insulating glass windows. time consuming lamination logical development incor-
over three years. The solar cells are fixed processes are removed. porated into the industrial
The modules were pro- in gas-filled spaces using Within the scope of the production of innovative
duced using Bystronic adhesive pins between the project “TPedge – Devel- solar module concepts.
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