Sun Pacific Holding Corp (SNPW)

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Site-specific cost/benefit workups will be required.

...it seems that glassless panels have two major drawbacks: 1) the heat efficiency is less than that of glass and 2) the costs seems to be substantially higher. This being true, and maybe you can comment on it, why would buyers consider flexible non glass solar against traditional panels. Also, have you read the SNPW patents - seems as if it has more to do with manufacture/assembly than specmanship.

Yes, for solar panels as they get heated, either from direct sunlight, or from ambient air temperatures, electricity production declines as those panel temps increase. This is true for all solar panels. The Sun Pacific Power panels do not have an exceptional "heat efficiency."

Nonetheless, this should be accounted for in the siting of the panels. Placing solar arrays (panel complexes) on roofs is a common practice. But if placed directly on the roof, or even in framework elevated only slightly above it, the roof acts as a solar heat collector and reduces the installed panels' heat efficiency. A solution is to place the panel framework some distance from the roof surface. With this, normal air convection moves over the roof, beneath the panels and keeps them much cooler.

The absence of glass panels needed to protect the Sun Pacific panels would be favorable; requiring less robust framework.

The advantages of simplified, efficient construction of the panels (in the factory) should yield pricing advantages. As I've discovered in the project I'm monitoring, solar panel prices are the largest single cost factor. Those have to be calculated out over the anticipated operational life span of the panels.

Obviously, each installation will require a detailed cost/benefit workup. Nothing that I see on the PDF spec sheet sends Sun Pacific panels off the workup page. If panel prices are competitive, Sun Pacific is in the game.