Panasonic has a long history of breaking solar efficiency records. The company recently announced that it has broken an efficiency record again.
Its HIT solar cell has achieved a conversion efficiency of 25.6%, a new world record and “a major increase over the previous world record for crystalline silicon-based solar cells,” as Panasonic notes.
Notably, that previous record was also set by Panasonic. Back in February 2013, we announced that the company’s HIT solar cell had hit an efficiency of 24.7%.