PV Taiwan 2015: Trading places
Show roundup: At PV Taiwan 2015, Taiwanese firms displayed the latest in technological advances in solar PV, indicating that the island across the Taiwan Strait from China continues to maintain its place at the fore of solar PV supply chains.
PV market reversal: pro-mono?
China monocrystalline: Solar was birthed in mono, but the cost advantages brought by multicrystalline silicon saw it fall out of favor as the industry grew. But there are noticeable winds of change blowing through China right now, with monos numerous advantages becoming ever clearer as costs fall.
Minimizing downtime is a main objective
CEO Interview: On the back of developing a data solution tailored for Europes largest PV power plant, Frances QOS CEO Franck Le Breton makes the case for a third-party solar data management system. Its the Internet of Things and PV together at last.
New criteria, stable prices
Module price index: pvXchange has altered the criteria for its October module price index to reflect European market pricing. There has been little movement of late.
Load profiles cry out for a battery storage system
Agriculture: That farmers and industrial operations build PV plants is nothing new. But now, storage systems are becoming a more attractive proposition for them, and the concepts are as individual as the companies themselves.
Leapfrog development model
Adding solar value: The world needs leaders eager to deploy greater volumes of solar not purely because of some environmental duty, but because the technology increasingly makes sense from an economic, performance and development perspective, writes Brad Meikle of Headwall Power International.
Keeping it under control
Interview: meteocontrol MD Robert Pfatischer describes to pv magazine how the companys expansion plans and management strategies have evolved since its acquisition last year by Chinese solar power company Shunfeng.
Forecast update: Chinas ghost kilowatts
Market revision: Anticipating future growth in the PV industry has never been an exact science, but as regional and market behavior ossifies, it has become easier to make relatively stable assumptions on how certain markets will perform over the next few years. Paula Mints from SPV Market Research reports.
Dealing in uncertainty
Solar pricing update: Analysis of the price and market trends that shaped the global cell, module and wafer market over the past few months, provided by Renewable Analytics.
Creating a marketplace for quality
Interview: EnergySage CEO Vikram Aggarwal describes how the solar marketplace can be a daunting environment for a first-time solar shopper, and explains to pv magazine how EnergySage constantly reminds itself to think like a consumer in order to ensure its service meets a whole range of needs.
