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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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Reevaluating hailstorm damage at the Fighting Jays solar project

January 14, 2025
Despite reports of the extensive damage inflicted by hail on PV power plants, protection measures appear to be working, writes John Sedgwick.
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How AI can improve the performance of solar technologies

November 21, 2024
Lenny Tinker, PV program manager at the US DOE SETO, writes how the use of AI and machine learning can help improve solar PV performance.
Baywa r.e.'s Thomaso Charlemont.
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Why a ‘huge wave’ of PV revamping and repowering is on its way in Europe

October 10, 2024
PV Talk: BayWa r.e.’s Tomaso Charlemont tells JP Casey why revamping and repowering PV power plants is emerging as a separate discipline within the PV industry and one poised for explosive growth.

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