SolarCity, the 9-year-old solar energy company that counts Elon Musk as a co-founder and current chairman, announced this morning that it has reached a new record for solar panel efficiency.

Not only will the factory that SolarCity will occupy in South Buffalo be the biggest solar panel factory in the Western Hemisphere, the rooftop modules it makes will be the most efficient in the ...

SolarCity’s solar panels are constructed with solar cells that have achieved a 22.5 percent conversion efficiency.As the chart shows, 22.5 percent conversion efficiency is impressive, but it is ...

Shares of SolarCity Corp. SCTY jumped 7.3% after the company announced that it has built the world's most efficient rooftop solar panel. These panels have been designed to generate more power per ...

SolarCity — the leading installer of residential solar panels in the US — announced today in Times Square that the company has built the industry’s most efficient solar panel, Reuters reports.

Volume solar panel manufactured in the U.S. SolarCity has built the world’s most efficient rooftop solar panel, with a module efficiency exceeding 22 percent. The new SolarCity panel generates more ...

At an event Friday morning in New York, SolarCity will lay claim to one of the solar manufacturing world’s top titles — Most Efficient Rooftop Panel on Earth. And in a shift for an industry ...

The key finding of the report is that power degradation (annual efficiency loss) of solar panels supplied to SolarCity is as much as 35% lower than for a comparable industry-wide selection of non ...

Rooftop solar giant SolarCity announced Friday that it has built a high-efficiency panel that the company says will generate more power per square foot and harvest more energy than any other on ...

That didn't take long. Solar systems integrator and leasing company SolarCity has added a service that combines its solar leasing plan with a Home Tuneup, a set of audits and energy efficiency ...

The solar panels that SolarCity plans to begin making in South Buffalo next year will be the most efficient rooftop modules that are being made anywhere in the world, the company said Friday.