SunPower rebrands 470-W REC panel as its own for US residential market

SunPower has joined with REC Group to provide a photo voltaic panel for the U.S. residential market.

T.J. Rodgers unveiling the SunPower/REC photo voltaic panel.

The all-black photo voltaic panel peaks at 470 W and weighs 50 lbs. It’s a rebrand of REC’s Alpha Pure-RX 470-W panel.

The joint growth settlement between SunPower and REC goals to develop, engineer and commercialize high-wattage, frameless bifacial photo voltaic panels for the residential and lightweight industrial photo voltaic markets. The introduced panel is just not bifacial, however SunPower intends to vary that quickly.

Regardless of the unique SunPower going out of enterprise, present SunPower Chairman and CEO T.J. Rodgers is leaning on the previous firm’s superior know-how roots.

“SunPower has a protracted historical past of innovation in photo voltaic cell and panel know-how since its founding in 1985. By the point of the SPWR Preliminary Public Providing in 2005, SunPower had already developed essentially the most technologically superior photo voltaic panels within the business and manufactured them on totally automated strains,” Rodgers mentioned. “We now add to that document by advantage of our collaboration with REC, the present U.S. residential photo voltaic panel business quantity chief, recognized for sturdiness, top quality requirements, and innovation.”