Operations & Maintenance

Solar engineering software company PVCase has launched a project planning platform designed to cover the entire construction and planning process for PV projects.

FTC Solar has launched its Automated Hail Stow Solution, an automated programme to stow PV modules ahead of hailstorms.

As the unexpected happens, accurate forecasting becomes a vital tool to sustain grid operations, writes Tigo Energy's Evgeny Finkel.

US utility-scale service provider Cleanleaf Energy has signed 350MW of operations and maintenance (O&M) services in the US.

Tigo Energy uses its ‘Predict+’ model to forecast electricity generation, as the growth in distributed energy creates a data deluge.

Wiki-Solar's latest figures show that the world’s top 34 EPC contractors are now responsible for a combined portfolio of more than 100GWac.

In the first of PV Tech Premium’s big interviews, we speak to PVcase founder and CEO David Trainavicius about data risk in solar management.

Solargis' latest figures for solar irradiance in India show that increased pollution has contributed to falling solar power output.

The rapid emergence of new PV technologies such as bifacial has in some cases outpaced the evolution of suitable technical and regulatory specifications.

Digitalisation offers PV plant operators the opportunity to shift from preventive to predictive maintenance practices. Eduardo Sarquis reports on research aimed at shedding further light on the system performance benefits of moving to a predictive O&M strategy.