Csiro Solar Panel Testing Results

The current results are from the three month milestone with additional reports to come.

Csiro solar panel testing results.

This is excellent for consumers as it highlights the most popular panels and quantifies their features. The panels were tested indoors in the csiro lab and outdoors for 12 months. While we have a comprehensive and skilled laboratory solar panel testing is well outside our skill set. Over the past year choice magazine and the csiro have partnered up to test and review some of the most commonly sold solar panels in australia.

This article was written with the assistance of dr chris fell from the csiro energy centre. In this article we explain our findings from that review and the insights we gained along the way. After indoor testing the panels are mounted at csiro s outdoor facilities. We ve partnered with the csiro energy centre in newcastle nsw a world class solar research facility and currently have 11 panels from leading brands on test.

The solar panels in that test and their final scores were. Relevant data is recorded every 10 minutes for analyses. For this reason choice set out in 2015 to perform a comparative test and review of solar pv panels. The final report will be released after the panels have been tested for a full year.

This includes initial lab testing of the new panels then testing in csiro s outdoor facility where their real world performance is closely monitored. Now the results are in. The facility performs calibrated current voltage sweeps of each panel at defined intervals. Outdoor cell and module testing.

Our outdoor research facility provides 60 individual test beds for advanced diagnostic testing of pv panels under a carefully monitored outdoor solar environment.