O&M specialist will tap into pureplay credentials and word-of-mouth to capture 1GW market opportunity created by Taiwan’s solar momentum, PV Tech hears on sidelines of trade show.
At the recently held 2019 PV ModuleTech conference, held in Malaysia, PV Tech talked with Frédéric Dross, VP Technology Americas with DSM after his presentation that highlighted PV module materials for performance and reliability.
The projects, which will be operated by First Solar's operations and maintenance arm once commissioned next year, are contracted to provide power to Facebook's data centres via a PPA with PacifiCorp.
Hevel fires up 1MW of rooftop and ground-mounted PV at a state-managed oil refinery in southern Russia, while Photon interconnects 6.9GWh to Hungary grid and receives 13.6MW of PV solar modules from Jinko.
Sungrow Power Supply has introduced the SG250HX, the world’s most powerful 1500Vdc string inverter, which is optimized for hilly, utility-scale installations and designed for bifacial modules and tracker systems.
TenneT commits €215m to 380kV/110kV substations and other grid upgrades to relieve congestion, following months of political pressure over PV-driven bottlenecks.
Raycatch has introduced ‘DeepSolar 2.0,’ a fully automated, AI-based diagnostic software program for cost-optimized maintenance and monitoring of photovoltaic power plants.
PV ModuleTech 2019 takes place in Penang, Malaysia on 22-23 October 2019. During this event, I will be giving a 45 minute presentation on the new PV ModuleTech Bankability Ratings, focusing on benchmarking the 14 module suppliers that have rating grades of A or B, and explaining why the other several hundred module suppliers today globally are speculative buys for large-scale utility PV projects.
Total inverter replacement requirements could grow to account for 3.4% of the global inverter market heading into 2020, according to market research firm.
