For coastal solar and storage projects, complying with minimum code requirements is not sufficient to ensure long service ...

Researchers at Canada's Western University demonstrated that a foam-backed floating solar PV system with an air-bubbler can ...

Researchers from UNSW and Trina Solar developed a silver-free silicon tunnel-back-contact solar cell using dual-polarity ...

Researchers in Algeria simulated perforated hexagonal-fin heat sinks to improve PV cooling performance using CFD analysis. The best design reduced cell temperature by up to 20.93% and increased ...

The industry must adopt more rigorous and standardised approaches to PV component data management, according to Marcel Suri. Image: Solargis. The lack of standardisation and verification in the ...

Energy yield as a metric for PV performance is no longer sufficient on its own. Image: American Public Power Association, Unsplash. The size of PV projects and increasingly complex market conditions ...

Scanifly, the solar industry’s leader in PV design and field operations software, announced an integration with IronRidge, an Enstall company and trusted name in solar mounting systems for over 25 ...

Germany has quietly flipped the switch on a new kind of solar plant, one that stands upright on water instead of lying flat on land or reservoirs. The world’s first floating vertical solar farm is ...

Unique usage of power with solar photovoltaics. Power efficiency assisted via photovoltaics. Designers may not be fully aware of a very powerful technique that can extract maximum power from solar ...

What is the PV-Pushback-Effect? How can solar day lamps (SDLs) take advantage of this effect? Solar day lamps (SDLs) are made by simply connecting an LED array to a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel. SDLs ...