plant performance

Hail accounts for 73% of financial losses for US solar PV projects, despite representing just 6% of the total number of loss incidents.

Ben Moore reports on RESPONDENT, a European-funded project that uses space technologies to help integrate renewable energy into the grid.

Jonathan Touriño Jacobo profiles Silicon Ranch, a US IPP whose ‘Regenerative Energy’ concept takes a holistic approach to PV development.

Understanding year-on-year solar radiation variability is critical for optimising solar projects, particularly amid climate change.

As solar projects become more complex, Typical Meteorological Year data is holding the industry back, according to Solargis' Marcel Suri.

Speakers at LSSEU in Lisbon said that underperformance is a "massive" problem in the PV industry, which can be solved with "good data".

Asset underperformance cost the global solar sector a record US$10 billion in lost revenue in 2024, according to Raptor Maps.

JinkoSolar reports on some of the work the company is doing to develop and test products to withstand the rigours of the marine environment.

Wenzhong Shen, Sheng Ma and Huanpei Huang present an overview of the ultraviolet-induced degradation affecting TOPCon cells and modules.

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