Scientists in China have designed a photovoltaic-thermal integrated air-source heat pump hot water system that uses a phase change tank to lower energy consumption and achieve higher power generation ...

Abstract: Performance improvement of the PVT module is a very important topic in recent decades. Solar energy is a vital resource for mankind. Continuous elevation of the cell temperature of the PVT ...

Sunmaxx photovoltaic-thermal solar module factory. Credit: Sunmaxx. Dresden-based photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) solar module manufacturer Sunmaxx has started building automated module production in ...

German-based solar photovoltaic thermal (PVT) system manufacturer Sunmaxx PVT has set a new efficiency record of 80% for its premium PX-1 module. Sunmaxx PVT’s combination of PV and thermal technology ...

The module can be used in landscape and portrait orientation. Combined with heat pumps, it also enables efficient and cost-effective energy and heating while using only a small amount of space.

Austria has installed Europe’s largest photovoltaic-thermal (PVT) solar system at a stadium, using Sunmaxx modules combined with geothermal energy and brine heat pumps to provide climate-neutral ...

A novel thermal energy storage and recovery system is proposed as a modification to existing photovoltaic modules with the objective to improve the solar energy collector overall efficiency.

Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) said this week that its new PVT solar module PX-1 from German manufacturer Sunmaxx PVT has an overall efficiency of 80%. The ...