Answering YOUR questions: The importance of soiling monitoring & mitigation
pv magazine takes another look at monitoring and mitigation of solar system soiling to answer questions from you, the audience.
VDE acquires Renewable Energy Test Center
The move will exponentially expand RETC’s testing capabilities, adding value to VDE’s existing bankability and reliability assessment services.
Solar PV fires: Cost estimates and the road to better data
The solar industry’s struggle with fire safety is ongoing. Dr. John R. Balfour and Lawrence Shaw have developed a means to begin to estimate the future costs and impacts from reported PV system-sourced fires.
Renewables accounted for more than a quarter of all U.S. electrical generation in April
The latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Electric Power Monthly report shows renewables setting records once again and accounting for 25% of the country’s April electricity output.
How do we prevent solar fires if we don’t know anything about them?
Nobody wants their system to catch fire, yet fire data is historically underreported, making the discovery of causes and development of mitigation plans nearly impossible.
LineVision to run transmission line monitoring pilot with SMUD
LineVision’s V3 monitoring system will be installed across power lines in the greater Sacramento region for SMUD, monitoring transmission assets to identify if additional capacity is available at certain times where bottlenecks are present and to avoid energy curtailment.
Solar and wind delivered more energy generation than ever before in March
The two resources accounted for 16.8% of total U.S. energy generation in March, up 34.3% over March 2020.
Eyes in the sky: How solar plant owners can benefit from aerial inspection technologies
When asset owners don’t take advantage of aerial inspection tools, they may miss a chance to mitigate risk and optimize the health of the DC side of their system… and may leave money on the table.
Cleantech Roundup: Tigo Energy, Blue Bird, Mitrex, and more
Check out this week’s list of some of the newest announcements related to clean energy products.
Storm season has the solar industry looking to protect assets from costly hail damage
The destructive potential of hail on solar arrays has only been fully realized in the last two years. In this series, pv magazine talks with experts in storm modeling, risk insurance, and damage mitigation to learn how solar arrays can survive nature’s wrath.
