Mit Says “Shade Happens”

In the real Solar world, shade brings"
. . . . . . Energy loss,
. . . . . . Reliability concerns, and a
. . . . . . Constrained market, and
. . .MIT, has a solution.

Solar panels that are partially shaded by clouds or trees,
. . . sacrifice as much as 30% of their energy potential over a year.
Unified Solar’s technology,
. . . integrates an entire power balance circuit, onto a low-cost chip,
. . . that can be integrated into a solar panel, to regain that lost energy.
It can recover twice as much energy, under partial shading conditions,
. . . at a fraction of existing costs.

No one has ever thought of using the solar cell,
. . . as an energy storage itself, and
. . . that’s what we’re effectively doing.  

2014-04-30 Source: MIT says “shade happens”