Lessons learned from PV+Test
Module test:?For the second time Hanwha Solar submitted to the challenging PV+Test 2.0 test program created by the German safety standards authority TÜV Rheinland and Solarpraxis this time with a module from the same series that was already tested last year. After adjustments to its production process the module fared even better this time than it did before.
Monitor this
Monitoring systems: Monitoring and control have become essential to ensure not only the smooth operation of solar plants but also the mitigation of financial risk to investors.
Multi-MW solars past, present and future
Multi-megawatt solar: Paula Mints, founder and chief analyst of SPV Market Research, examines the development of large-scale solar PV.
Optimizing tracker trouble shooting
PV tracker O&M: The laundry list of what can go wrong with trackers is a long one. Tracker designers and operations & maintenance experts are bringing innovations to the industry to help reduce costs.
Performance under difficult conditions
Mounting systems Japan: Germany-based provider Schletter established operations in Japan in April 2012 to supply the booming ground-mount market. In supplying around 500 MW of mounting structures to Japan, it has learned valuable lessons about varying topographies and wide-ranging climactic conditions. Dominik Grützner, the representative director of Schletter Japan K.K, shares five key lessons from his time in Japan.
Recycling the whole module
Sustainable PV: In part two of pv magazines investigation of module recycling, the attention remains on the backsheet and how, in a cost-competitive environment, fluoropolymers continue to pose a largely hidden challenge.
Smart storage to power the Smarthome
Storage and the Smarthome: PV, batteries, and consumer electronics are coming together to deliver innovative solutions for the homeowner. It is capturing imaginations, but can it capture the future of residential energy?
Struggling utilities
Electric utilities: European utilities are struggling to adapt to a shifting market and investment landscape. As a result, policy-makers struggle to find new solutions in securing sufficient capacity reserves to integrate intermittent renewable power and avoid power outages. A pan-European electricity market could be an answer to this problem, but national governments seem more interested in protecting their home markets from competition.
The disruptor and the disrupted
Theres a high-pitched whirr, an imperceptible delay, and then you feel as if you are being launched into orbit. Putting my foot down in the Tesla Model S is an experience I wont forget any time soon. I took one for a test drive at the 15th Forum Solarpraxis, held in Berlin last November, and […]
UKs commercial breakthrough
Interview: Backed by government support and increasingly attractive to developers, the U.K. solar sector is evolving and 2015 could see commercial PV take center stage, says Lauren Cook of IHS.
