Buy Most Efficient Solar Cells In UK: SANYO HIT Photovoltaic Cells

It was in October 2008, when there was this news about high efficieny generating solar cells claiming to be having efficiency ratio of 40% (See details: Low cost PV Solar Cells & Solar Panels: High Efficiency of 40%). However, it appears that there was no further development on that. But now, Sanyo has come out with what might be termed as the most Efficient Solar Cells to be made available in the United Kingdom by Sanyo, which will be from the HIT series of Photovoltaic Solar Cells. Photo sourced from http://solar.sanyo.com/hit.html

What is the claimed efficiency rate in the Most Efficient Solar Cells?
It is reported that the solar cells of the HIT series from Sanyo will have the efficiency rate of around 21.5%, which is learnt to be the highest among all those currently available.

What makes this an important development at this time is that the HIT series photovoltaic cells have managed to pass the MCS accreditation.
This MCS accreditation, is a kind of certificate that is given to small scale companies which are in the technology for generating thermal energy or electrical energy from renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power, etc. This MCS accreditation is also a mandatory requirement for companies before they can start marketing such products in the UK markets for common consumers.
Another benefit for the MCS accreditation is that there is a FIT scheme (called Feed In Tariff scheme) popular in Europe (not just UK), which offers monetary incentives for using power generating setups from renewable energy resources. The HIT photovoltaic cells can now be used under the FIT scheme and the monetary benefits can be claimed by the users.

What are the other benefits of the SANYO HIT Photovoltaic Cells?
Sanyo has the benefits listed on their website. The following benefits are the ones which can be thought about:
These cells are claimed to be far more efficient than the common photovoltaic cells. They have high efficiency rate of around 21.5%.

Since they are having high efficiency ratio, they can generate more energy using less no. of cells. So the first benefit is less no. of cells are required to produce more or same amount of power generation (see related Solar Panels Energy: Angle of Solar Panel Tilt Correlation: Google Experiments)

Secondly, since less no. of cells are required, the amount of space required for installing the solar panels is comparatively less which makes it other major benefit