Csiro Solar Panel Testing Results

While we have a comprehensive and skilled laboratory solar panel testing is well outside our skill set.

Csiro solar panel testing results.

This is excellent for consumers as it highlights the most popular panels and quantifies their features. 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. The panels were tested indoors in the csiro lab and outdoors for 12 months. This article was written with the assistance of dr chris fell from the csiro energy centre.

After indoor testing the panels are mounted at csiro s outdoor facilities. From late 2015 to 2017 we put 15 solar panels from major brands to the test in a joint project with the csiro. The current results are from the three month milestone with additional reports to come. In this article we explain our findings from that review and the insights we gained along the way.

Now the results are in. Relevant data is recorded every 10 minutes for analyses. 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. After a little investigation it was clear that csiro s pv performance laboratory was the ideal partner for a collaborative test.

Our outdoor research facility provides 60 individual test beds for advanced diagnostic testing of pv panels under a carefully monitored outdoor solar environment. This includes initial lab testing of the new panels then testing in csiro s outdoor facility where their real world performance is closely monitored. The final report will be released after the panels have been tested for a full year. For this reason choice set out in 2015 to perform a comparative test and review of solar pv panels.

The solar panels in that test and their final scores were.