Operations & Maintenance

Arthur Cao outlines how fresh approaches are needed to ensuretracker-based PV systems are designed adequately to avoid unnecessary failures.

Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has successfully completed trials of autonomous robots designed to revolutionise maintenance operations at large-scale solar installations.

Yield uncertainty represents different things and different challenges, depending on who’s looking at it, writes Solargis' Marcel Suri.

Soiling-related losses are among the most serious threats to PV performance, according to Tomas Cebecauer and Vicente Lara-Fanego.

The latest PV Reliability Workshop highlighted why investing in PV reliability and quality is more important than ever.

VDE Americas has updated its hail risk model with new wind data, claiming it will improve the accuracy of hail-damage predictions for PV projects.

Power loss at solar PV projects has more than doubled in the last five years despite maturing markets and advancing technology, according to new data from US-based  solar asset analysis firm Raptor Maps.

Europe’s somewhat delicate position in global solar means it is uniquely-positioned to take advantage of global supply chain uncertainties.

Intertek CEA's Joerg Althaus examines some of the most commonly found tracking and racking defects in PV power plants.

SolarPower Europe has released two new technical due diligence reports for utility-scale hybrid solar PV and battery energy storage system (BESS) projects.