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We put this important question – and a few related ones – to Isaac Opalinsky, SunPower’s senior manager of training. Here’s what he had to say about solar panel size, efficiency and installation. Are the various solar panel sizes important for customers to consider? Size is a factor to consider in solar panels, but ultimately […]
DNV GL has launched a new online tool, Solar Resource Compass, that aggregates solar irradiance from many leading data providers to help users make more informed decisions about the data available and the variance between data sources. Solar Resource Compass also leverages analytics developed by DNV GL over the last 20 years to identify outliers to […]
Capacity additions for the current fiscal year are set to exceed the previous accounting period’s 8,532 MW. With $5.69 billion invested in clean energy in the last fiscal year, spending in the first nine months of 2019-20 has been estimated at $5.16 billion. February 5, 2020Uma Gupta India is set to best last year’s renewable […]
We asked wire management and electrical component providers to tell us about their latest and greatest products (inverters will be broken out into their own Buyer’s Guide next month). Trends in eBOS components right now include AC combiners, above ground cable management and heavy duty clamps. Check them all out below. Above Ground Cable Management […]
February 5, 2020 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has redesigned its International Energy Portal to streamline navigation, simplify data presentation, and implement responsive design use. EIA based many of the redesigned aspects on customer feedback about the earlier beta release of the portal. The International Energy Portal contains EIA’s […]
Under Tennet’s most optimistic outlook, solar generation capacity could more than double the volume of wind farms by the end of the decade, provided the Netherlands goes above and beyond Paris Agreement climate change requirements. February 5, 2020Emiliano Bellini Dutch electricity transmission system operator Tennet has considered three future energy scenarios in its 2020-30 development […]
NEXTracker has released NX Navigator, a next-generation software and smart control system that enables power plant operators to efficiently monitor and securely control their solar assets for increased production and reliable operation across a wide range of weather conditions. With an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), NX Navigator builds on the company’s proven TrueCapture system […]
The University of Rochester research lab that recently used lasers to create unsinkable metallic structures has now demonstrated how the same technology could be used to create highly efficient solar power generators. In a paper in Light: Science and Applications, the lab of Chunlei Guo, professor of optics also affiliated with Physics and the Material […]
Yotta, the developer of safe panel-level energy storage, has teamed up with California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) to install Yotta’s proprietary technology for energy storage on campus. The project has been designed to test the grid-interactive power controls of Yotta’s SolarLEAF and to ensure that critical tasks are successfully executed. This test comes as […]
The Japanese electronics company has produced a solid-state, dye-sensitized solar cell for integration into sensors and consumer electronics. The company says the device can generate electricity from indoor light. February 5, 2020Mark Hutchins Ricoh is working on a transparent version of the cell for mobile phone use. Image: Ricoh Company Ltd Ricoh Company Ltd has […]
