A group of scientists at the University of Cordoba, in Spain, has developed a photovoltaic system design for hot water production that is claimed to use around 95% of the available energy it can ...

Norwegian classification society DNV has published two new guidelines covering the structural design of floats for floating solar systems and their mooring and station keeping systems.

Sunnova’s partnership with Open Solar looks to cut residential rooftop PV design time from 15 minutes to 30 seconds. Image: Sunnova. The traditional process of designing rooftop solar installations ...

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 ...

Expected annual energy yield (PVout) is a fundamental number for every utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) project. It informs the design, shapes the budget, feeds the financial model, and influences what ...

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 ...

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 ...