Cheap and quick to deploy, solar PV can provide a vital source of power to areas impacted by war, supporting critical infrastructure and helping to keep day-to-day life running.
Molly Lempriere details how the technology is helping communities in Ukraine and other war zones
As the PV industry reckons with its social and environmental impact and the byproducts of its processes, beyond the near-term questions over provenance and manufacturing ethics, concerns at the horizon of a module’s lifespan are coming more and more into focus.
By Brahim Aïssa, Juan Lopez-Garcia, Benjamin Figgis, Veronica Bermudez
Presenting findings on the exposure of PV panels to the harsh environment of the Arabian
Desert, a team from the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute details the multiple
mitigation approaches to solar soiling.
Allegations of fraud at Indian conglomerate Adani Group, which have knocked around US$125 billion off its market value since January, are unlikely to cause any perceptible damage to India’s long-term solar growth, according to two prominent members of the industry.
In general, solar panels mounted over vegetation demonstrate surface temperature drops compared to arrays mounted over bare ground due to evapotranspiration from vegetation.
PV Tech spoke with Peter Dickson, partner at Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest renewable energy investment managers, about PPAs, legislation and price capping.
TÜV Rheinland held a ‘Global PV Buyers’ Workshop’, inviting some 20 representatives from the industry’s downstream players to take part. Brookfield Renewable, BayWa, Engie, TotalEnergies and Lightsource BP and others, and companies mainly engaged in development and operations such as ACWA Power, Bouygues and ECADI shared their thinking from different perspectives on module quality and procurement strategies.
This article will cover both the rooftop and large-scale PV segments in more detail, with the shift from net-metering to net-billing and the stagnancy over pricing in large-scale auctions.
