• 2020-05-09

Selling a residential solar system in pre-covidian days was challenging enough. Now it has to be done entirely remotely. Transitioning that emotional, big-ticket decision to a remote sales process in ...

• 2020-05-11

The island of Kauai’s journey to 100% renewable power reached an important milestone in 2019, with the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) reporting that for the year, the island achieved 56% rene...

• 2020-05-18

Performance Losses The performance losses of colored PV are mainly due to the lower amount of photons that are transmitted to the solar cells, which in turn leads to lower current and reduced power pr...

• 2020-05-18

OMV Petrom has installed rooftop PV arrays on 40 of its gas stations across Romania. Oil and gas provider OMV Petrom, which is majority-owned by Austrian oil and gas producer OMV, has installed PV sys...

• 2020-05-19

Recently, Japan designed their multi solar system to be integrated into walls and window surfaces. The system is available in two different versions – a solid type in which PV laminates are turned int...

• 2020-12-02

With the inclusion of battery energy storage into new building codes and safety standards, it’s obvious just how mainstream storage is today. Sign one: Everybody’s got a battery to sell While long-sta...

• 2020-05-31

Like so many other people, particularly as a business owner, mandatory stay-at-home orders scared me. Ours is a business of home improvement and frankly no one wants strangers in their home right now....

• 2020-05-31

Scientists at Japan’s Teikyo University have proposed a new method to quantitatively estimate voltage cells in operational PV modules. The new model – which the researchers describe in A proposal of a...

• 2020-05-31

Germany’s Sinn Power has developed what it calls the world’s “first floating ocean hybrid platform' by combining wave, wind and solar power. The Gauting-based startup has secured $6.2 million from Sch...

• 2020-08-28

Bifacial solar panels have grabbed everyone’s attention in the solar PV industry — for all the right reasons. Bifacial solar panels: Innovative, eye-catching, and best of all, more efficient Bifacial ...

• 2020-08-28

• 2020-08-28

Scientists in the Netherlands are trialing a floating solar installation based on Flexible thin-film PV Modules. The idea behind their concept is that such modules, in combination with a newly designe...