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The linked press release already cites an overall efficiency of 24%. Did you purposely scour the internet just to avoid reading it?

• qwertox 2y ago
  Yes. Old cells are 20%, new cells are 24%. To me, this means that the new cells are 4% more efficient. To their marketing team it means that they are 20% more powerful. Edit: Got it, the marketing team is accurate.
  • aktenlage 2y ago
    Your 4% are not percent, but percentage points. The marketing team is right about this one.
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  • aidenn0 2y ago
    They are certainly both 20% more efficient and 20% more powerful. Let's say that a certain size panel gets 100W of insolation. If you move from 20W to 24W then you are generating 20% more power from the same amount of insolation, so you are 20% more efficient. People seem to treat percentages differently from other numbers, when all it means is "divide by 100." Nobody complains when you say going from 9% to 18% is "doubling in efficiency" but if you say it is "100% more efficient" or "200% as efficient" then people complain.
  • creato 2y ago
    If you were going to buy these, you'd find you need 20% fewer panels (of the same area) to generate the same amount of power. Sounds like the marketing team is right about this one.
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  • fragmede 2y ago
    4 / 20 = 0.2 aka 20 percent.
  • guillermin 2y ago
    I'm afraid you are wrong, what you are referring to are percentage points [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage_point
    • qwertox 2y ago
      Perfect. Thanks!
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