Operations & Maintenance

Undetected faults and damage in solar PV modules, like cracks, manufacturing errors and foreign material, pose a “significant risk” to the solar industry according to a new report from US renewables firm Clean Energy Associates (CEA).

Legislators in Texas face a balancing act when considering grid reliability and the ratio of different methods to generate power.

The Q3 2023 edition of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download, leading with a focus on solar in the US, one year on from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

As solar power projects mature, panels increasingly lose efficiency. What do operators do with solar panels once they have reached the end of their lifespan? Will Norman finds out.

Stuti Gupta, Solar Lead at Prescinto, an AI-powered asset performance management platform for solar, wind and energy storage assets, and Prescinto Performance Excellence Head Abhishek Puttanna on the role of artificial intelligence in monitoring and optimising photovoltaic assets.

ReNew Power has acquired a number of solar panel cleaning machines from Airtouch, in a deal valued at around US$8.5 million.

Solargis speaks to PV Tech Premium on the importance of data to better understand extreme weather events and weather variability.

Stem has deployed its AI monitoring and optimisation solutions at the 304MW Mezőcsát solar plant in Hungary, the country’s largest.

As PV projects become more and more common in the Nordics, wind players like OX2 are entering the solar market with large-scale projects.

Part-2 of this article will discuss how recycling solar PV will reach landfill parity, the company’s global ambition and how PV recycling will have to work towards avoiding dumping panels illegally in less developed countries.