Balance of System

Germany-headquartered inverter manufacturer SMA Solar is expanding its Large Scale and Project Solutions business to cater for the fast-growing data centre market.

Solar PV equipment provider Nextpower has been issued a new US patent for its electrical balance of system (eBOS) offering.

Australia's installed cost of utility-scale solar has not fallen at the pace required to reach the country's “ultra-low-cost solar” (UCLS) ambitions, despite continued progress in cell and module efficiency.

Tracker manufacturer ARRAY Technologies says a new 60-degree version of its DuraTrack single-axis tracker raises the bar on hail and wind durability.

The Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition (MITECO) has awarded more than €160 million (US$183 million) in funding to 40 clean energy manufacturing projects, three of which are for solar PV.

eBOS hardware, long overlooked in PV design, is now central to solar project cost optimisation as technologies advance, writes Shreeyashi Ojha.

US tracker supplier Array Technologies has launched an enhanced version of its DuraTrack system that supports a two-row module format.

Chinese solar tracker producer Arctech Solar signed 3GW of supply deals at the SNEC conference in Shanghai, China, last week.

The top 10 PV tracker manufacturers are investing in artificial intelligence applications or advanced materials to improve tracker performance or reduce solar project costs.

PV Talk: Frank Oudheusden explains how robotics could create a paradigm shift and improvements in PV system optimisation for extreme weather.