A recent report from the European trade association SolarPower Europe (SPE) has highlighted the use of data-driven techniques, industry 4.0 solutions and robotics as some of the key trends in operations and maintenance (O&M) for the solar industry.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a US$30 million funding, from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, to accelerate the interconnection process for new energy generation.
Advances in AI will lead to a “paradigm shift” in solar asset management, with a range of complex analytics and plant performance processes becoming as simple as talking to a chatbot.
PV Talk: Govinda Upadhyay, CEO of SmartHelio, gives Ben Willis a sneak preview of an AI-based tool that he believes could herald a “paradigm shift” in tackling PV plant underperformance.
Solar, storage and other renewables projects are facing unprecedented interconnection queues in some parts of the US. Jonathan Touriño Jacobo reports on the struggle solar and storage developers are facing in getting projects off the ground and the efforts underway to ease the problem.
Global grid capacity needs to grow 2.5 times its current size, and annual expenditure on grids must more than double to US$970 billion by 2050, according to a new report from DNV.
