Long Reads

Digitalisation offers PV plant operators the opportunity to shift from preventive to predictive maintenance practices. Eduardo Sarquis reports on research aimed at shedding further light on the system performance benefits of moving to a predictive O&M strategy.

PV Tech Premium spoke with the CCSA on utilities in California, Washington and Virginia slowing down the progress of community solar.

PV Cycle talks about module recycling, reuse aspects of retiring a solar project, and misconceptions about the value of end-of-life materials.

Hail represents a significant threat to PV modules, more so as climate change increases the potential for severe storms.

The selection of a module's technology should be more dependent on effective dollar per watt rather than the cost of the product.

A major multinational glass company has verified that the crushed glass produced from used solar modules by Solarcycle can be used to make high-quality PV glass sheets, which has never been proven before, the PV recycling firm’s CEO has revealed exclusively to PV Tech Premium.

Booming solar deployment in has led to fears that a bottleneck in the availability of contractors could squeeze project completion rates.

At present, there are limited studies on the processes of decommissioning solar projects and cost estimates vary wildly.

Peru's untapped solar PV potential could help accelerate the growth of the technology by powering green ammonia projects.