operations and maintenance

PV Talk: Solclaris' Joe Miletic discusses the 'ready-to-repower' stage of PV project O&M and how it differs from the 'ready-to-build' stage.

SmartHelio, the Swiss solar predictive analytics specialists, has secured new investment from the technology funder quantumEDGE Ventures to develop its technology and expand into new markets.

Virto.MAX is built for sales teams and project developers of commercial & industrial PV to create designs of roof, ground and carport projects.

Kiwa PVEL has rolled out updates to its module testing programme, with two changes affecting Static Mechanical Load (SML) and hail testing.

Solar PV project performance in the US can be significantly impacted by the impacts of hailstorms, stowing methods and fire.

Kiwa PVEL has updated its solar module Production Qualification Program to better assess the performance of solar PV modules.

GameChange Solar has completed testing of its Genius Tracker system, which yielded results of no 'meaningful power loss' in most tests.

Arthur Cao outlines how fresh approaches are needed to ensuretracker-based PV systems are designed adequately to avoid unnecessary failures.

Yield uncertainty represents different things and different challenges, depending on who’s looking at it, writes Solargis' Marcel Suri.

Soiling-related losses are among the most serious threats to PV performance, according to Tomas Cebecauer and Vicente Lara-Fanego.