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The Galileo satellite.
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Harnessing AI and European space tech to transform energy grids

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June 2, 2025
By Ben Moore, dissemination and communication manager of the RESPONDENT project
Ben Moore reports on RESPONDENT, a European-funded project that uses space technologies to help integrate renewable energy into the grid.
Diagram from Fraunhofer.
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Inverters and power modules are key players in energy management – but testing methods need improvement

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
May 27, 2025
By Sandy Klengel, group leader at the Fraunhofer IMWS
Inverters are critical to PV systems but are often over-specified due to inadequate data on which materials and designs optimise performance.

The hidden digital highways threatening critical solar PV infrastructure

Features, Guest Blog
May 27, 2025
By Grant Geyer
Following reports of 'rogue' communication devices in Chinese solar inverters, the solar industry needs to wake up to cybersecurity risk.
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​​The inaccuracies in PV simulations for bifacial PV systems lie in outdated simulation models

Features, Guest Blog
May 20, 2025
By Marcel Suri, CEO, Solargis
The ability of PV simulation software to accurately simulate energy performance for bifacial modules leaves more questions than answers.
The plant has already shipped its first US-made TOPCon modules earlier this year. Image: Thomas Koerner via LinkedIn.

Technology selection for US cell manufacturers – more than meets the eye

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May 12, 2025
By Martin Meyers
CEA's Martin Meyers considers the pros and cons of the different PV cell technology options for manufacturers starting production in the US.
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Australia’s commercial solar blind spot: why maintenance can no longer be an afterthought

Features, Guest Blog
April 29, 2025
By Daniel Lazarus, CEO of Industrias Services, and Chris Martell, director of Diagno Energy
Solar cannot be regarded as a 'set and forget' technology and must be fully maintained to prevent systemic underperformance.
Europe’s largest PV power plant seen from the EU’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite.
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Is PV woke and other reflections on the PV industry

Features, Guest Blog, Long Reads
April 22, 2025
By Gaëtan Masson, CEO, Becquerel Institute
Solar’s rapid expansion has attracted the attention of those opposed to its ongoing success, writes Becquerel Institute CEO Gaëtan Masson.
The Kelso Solar project in the US.

Adapting PV projects to climate change requires better data

Features, Guest Blog
April 16, 2025
By Marcel Suri, CEO, Solargis
Understanding year-on-year solar radiation variability is critical for optimising solar projects, particularly amid climate change.
An agriPV project.
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Agrivoltaics: towards the optimisation of the solar resource for energy and food

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March 31, 2025
By Hugo Sánchez Ortiz
Hugo Sánchez Ortiz reports on some of the findings of research into how best to balance land use for energy and food production.
Solargis' Evaluate 2.0 platform.

Moving beyond TMY: Why the solar industry needs time series data for PV project evaluation

Features, Guest Blog
March 31, 2025
By Marcel Suri, CEO, Solargis
As solar projects become more complex, Typical Meteorological Year data is holding the industry back, according to Solargis' Marcel Suri.

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