Trina Solar has released the CAPEX and levelised cost of energy (LCOE) assessment White Paper, including Fraunhofer ISE, DNV, Black&Veatch, Enertis Applus+, UL, five global authoritative organisations for the Vertex series modules.

The calculation research covers six countries and forms 84 sets of comparative data, which intuitively and comprehensively shows the system value advantages of the Vertex series modules.

At present, the world is committed to carbon neutrality, and building a new power system with new energy as the main body is also the direction of energy transformation. As far as the PV field is concerned, only a lower LCOE can accelerate the replacement of fossil energy such as coal and crude oil and promote the realisation of the “dual carbon” goals.

The latest White Paper starts by explaining the system value principle and various ways of reducing LCOE. It lists the calculations and studies by Fraunhofer ISE, DNV, BLACK&VEATCH, Enertis Applus+ and UL performed in Germany, Spain, Brazil, the United States, Australia and the UAE, covering PV modules of four different sizes: 210mm, 182mm, 166mm and 158mm.

The study shows that the impact of using different modules on the value of the whole system based mainly on the difference in two indicators: Balance of system (BOS) cost and LCOE.

In order to provide customers with better services, Trina Solar has previously launched version 2.0 of the intelligent matching databases for PV project design, which includes 22 string inverters of 238 products, 14 mainstream tracker manufacturers, and over 30 tracker products. With the update of the data in the white paper, the tool has been upgraded to version 3.0.

The white paper can be downloaded here.