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Hail causes over 70% of financial losses for US PV – kWh Analytics

June 10, 2025
Hail accounts for 73% of financial losses for US solar PV projects, despite representing just 6% of the total number of loss incidents.
The Galileo satellite.
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Harnessing AI and European space tech to transform energy grids

June 2, 2025
Ben Moore reports on RESPONDENT, a European-funded project that uses space technologies to help integrate renewable energy into the grid.
Sheep and solar panels.
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‘Local opposition wasn’t a thing we had to deal with as an industry for many years’

May 7, 2025
Jonathan Touriño Jacobo profiles Silicon Ranch, a US IPP whose ‘Regenerative Energy’ concept takes a holistic approach to PV development.
The Kelso Solar project in the US.

Adapting PV projects to climate change requires better data

April 16, 2025
Understanding year-on-year solar radiation variability is critical for optimising solar projects, particularly amid climate change.
Solargis' Evaluate 2.0 platform.

Moving beyond TMY: Why the solar industry needs time series data for PV project evaluation

March 31, 2025
As solar projects become more complex, Typical Meteorological Year data is holding the industry back, according to Solargis' Marcel Suri.
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‘Massive’ PV underperformance is a data problem, says industry panel

March 26, 2025
Speakers at LSSEU in Lisbon said that underperformance is a "massive" problem in the PV industry, which can be solved with "good data".
Lightsource bp's Peacock solar project.

Raptor Maps: Global solar loses up to US$10 billion to asset underperformance in 2024

March 4, 2025
Asset underperformance cost the global solar sector a record US$10 billion in lost revenue in 2024, according to Raptor Maps.
A pile-based offshore solar power station, at 1.3GW the largest of its kind under construction.
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Reliability requirements for offshore PV systems

March 3, 2025
JinkoSolar reports on some of the work the company is doing to develop and test products to withstand the rigours of the marine environment.
Trina Solar TOPCon products.
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Deep concern about TOPCon module quality

February 24, 2025
Wenzhong Shen, Sheng Ma and Huanpei Huang present an overview of the ultraviolet-induced degradation affecting TOPCon cells and modules.
The Evaluate 2.0 programme in action.

‘Better granularity’: Solargis on the launch of its Evaluate 2.0 programme

January 24, 2025
Slovakian software provider Solargis has launched Evaluate 2.0, the second generation of its 3D PV power plant designer.

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