New Technology

Artificial intelligence (AI) company Avathon has launched its AI-powered Autonomy Platform to boost profitability in a market that is facing tax and policy challenges. 

UNSW spin-out company Lab360 Solar has been awarded funding from ARENA to bring its drone-based PV inspection technology to market.

Sembcorp Solar Singapore has won a tender to develop an 86MWp floating solar PV project on Pandan Reservoir. 

State-owned firm Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) has launched a tender for the construction of a 280MW floating PV (FPV) project.

Noria has started construction on a 50kW floating PV pilot project, which includes the first trackers on a floating solar project in the US.

Specialist floating solar (FPV) developer Third Pillar Solar will examine the potential to develop 500MW of assets on Texas reservoirs.

Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar module reuse and recycling scheme.

US tracker manufacturer FTC Solar has launched a new single-axis tracker model built for extreme wind regions. 

A new MIT study has shown how many of the dramatic reductions in PV costs in the past 50 years were the result of innovations originating outside the solar industry.

US solar tracker manufacturer Nextracker will supply 1.5GW of its products to a Brazilian solar PV hybrid project portfolio.