What is the Monofacial Solar Panel?
The monofacial solar panels are common and traditional forms of solar panels which consist of photovoltaic cells, encapsulant materials, a backsheet, front glass, a frame, and a junction box. These solar panels absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity power from the front side that faces the sky. When you plan to install solar panels on the house roof or the lawn, the monofacial solar modules are the better choices.
What is the Bifacial Solar Panel?
The bifacial solar panels consist of photovoltaic cells, encapsulant materials, front glass, rear glass, frame, and junction box. These solar panels absorb sunlight from the front side and rear side of the solar module and then convert it into electricity power, which will generate more power output than monofacial solar panels.
Advantages of Mono-facial Solar Panels
- Biaya: Monofacial solar modules are less expensive than bifacial solar panels due to their structure and materials needed. There are many more single-glass solar modules than dual-glass solar panels because of the cost.
- Easier Installation: When you install the monofacial solar panels, there’s no need to think of the specialized mounting systems or consider the ground reflection factors while these are needed to consider when installing the bifacial solar panels, which make it easier to install monofacial solar modules.
- Maintenance: As monofacial solar panels only have one active side, while bifacial solar modules have two sides, this can lead to lower maintenance costs in the long run.
- Berat: Monofacial solar panels are lighter and more durable than bifacial solar panels, as they have fewer components structure.
Advantages of Bifacial Solar Panels
- More Power Output: Bifacial solar modules can absorb sunlight from both sides, which means they can generate electricity from the direct sunlight from the front side as well as the reflected sunlight from the rear side. This can significantly increase the power output of the solar panels.
- More Durable: Bifacial solar panels have glasses on both sides, the front side is anti-reflection coating glass, and the back side is heat strengthened glass, while the mono-facial solar panels only have the glass on one side and the backsheet is made of plastic materials, so the bifacial solar modules will be more durable and a longer lifespan, as the glass is more resistant to degradation from weather and environmental factors.
- Better performance in diffused light: Bifacial solar panels can capture more diffused light, which can be beneficial in regions with high cloud cover or during winter months when direct sunlight is less frequent.
- Longer warranty: Bifacial solar modules have 30 years warranty, while monofacial solar modules have 25 years warranty.
Where should bifacial solar panels be installed?
Bifacial solar panels are suitable for places where sunlight can reach both sides of the panels. It is not recommended to use bifacial modules when directly laying solar panels on household roofs, because the back side of the bifacial solar panels cannot absorb sunlight and the features of bifacial modules cannot be brought into play. The following are suitable places for bifacial solar panels: ground-mounted systems, flat commercial rooftops, balconies, solar carports, pergolas, awnings, patios, dan sebagainya.
Kesimpulan
Mono vs bifacial solar panel, when choosing the solar panels for your detailed applications, figure out whether the place has the chance to get enough radiation on the back side, if yes, the bifacial solar modules are the better choice, if not, the monoficial solar modules are the better choice.
Energi Baru HBOWA is a professional and reliable solar panel manufacturer in China. We provide you with single-glass, dual-glass, full-black, PERC, TOPCon, and HJT solar modules, customization service is also available. If you have any other concerns or questions about the mono-facial and bifacial solar panels, feel free to contact our team for suggestions, we are always here to support you.
