The latest episode of the Solar Media Podcast sees Liam Stoker and Andy Colthorpe discuss how the clean energy economy is responding to Covid-19 while Andy reports from PV Expo in Tokyo, which itself felt the effects of the virus outbreak.
Source confirms reports claiming Actis is to take over large-scale portfolio, boosting market footprint for investor already targeting Indian solar through dedicated unit.
Russia-based high-efficiency heterojunction solar module producer says it is planning to fully ramp up the 80MW capacity increase in the third quarter of 2020.
Suntech is backing the combination of high-efficiency panels with the service offering of sister company meteocontrol to gain traction in the Middle East.
Italian giant's new climate strategy leans heavily on dramatic renewables ramp-up and on company reaching peak oil and gas production within five years.
Major solar inverter supplier Sungrow has signed a 100MW deal with Japanese company YUASA, aimed at addressing solar and energy storage needs in the changing landscape of Japan’s renewable energy market.
Japanese trading giant Marubeni has picked up Taiwanese solar portfolio developer and operator Chenya Energy, intending to ramp up its floating solar exposure as a result.
Nasdaq-listed group expects deployment to grow by further 15% in 2020, amid hopes that uptake of its solar-plus-storage offering Brightbox will double year-on-year.
Potential-induced degradation (PID) is still one of the main reasons for unpredictable power losses in PV power plants. Volker Naumann, Otwin Breitenstein, Klemens Ilse, Matthias Pander, Kai Sporleder and Christian Hagendorf of Fraunhofer CSP examine how the PID susceptibility of PV modules is influenced by environmental stress. It is found that PID may develop in originally PID-resistant modules after a period of one to three years of unsuspicious operation, depending on climatic conditions
