Developing, sourcing, building and maintaining solar PV projects routinely runs into the millions of dollars of long-term investment, and the impacts of serious theft on a solar asset owner can result in lost revenues, lost energy generation and sometimes lost insurance and ability to operate.
Microgrids in the US still face several challenges - speed and standardisation chief among them - in order to help alleviate and decentralise the grid.
PV Tech Premium caught up with the French solar PV manufacturing startup Carbon to discuss its plans for expansion, inclusion in a European research and development (R&D) ecosystem and how to redress the balance of EU solar supply.
PV Tech sat down with Alastair Mounsey, Regional Sales Director at JA Solar, to talk about the transition to n-type tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) cells and modules, the state of the European solar market and what will define a successful PV manufacturer in the coming years.
PV Tech sat down with Singapore-headquartered solar module manufacturer REC Solar at the Solar & Storage Live 2023 event in Birmingham, UK, to discuss n-type production, its European plans and why price isn’t everything when it comes to solar.