The Q2 2025 edition of our downstream solar PV journal, PV Tech Power, is now available to download.
The cover story for Volume 42 focuses on local opposition to solar PV and how developers engage with the community to build their projects worldwide, with examples from the US and the UK. Community engagement, implementing biodiversity, and building a solar PV plant in a former mining area are some of the examples explored in the cover story as to how developers have worked to respond to concerns from local communities.
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Other highlights in this edition include:
- 25 years to go: shifting the focus from solar growth towards successful operations
Underperformance in PV power plants is on the rise. Avery Black, Leo Kim and Don Nista of Raptor Maps reveal why.
- Inverters and power modules are key players in energy management – but testing methods need improvement
Fraunhofer IMWS reports on research aiming to develop a more precise methodology for predicting inverter reliability and lifetime.
- Virtual power plants: a modern solution to a data-driven problem
Virtual power plants are emerging as a critical means of meeting the growing power demands from data centres in the US and beyond.
- Maximising BESS profitability through forecasting and real-time optimisation
Intensifying competition and unpredictable market conditions in the BESS sector increase the need for robust forecasting and optimisation strategies, writes Lennard Wilkening.
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