Greece’s energy regulator has announced the results of the country’s latest round of tenders for renewable energy, which saw the incumbent utility offer the country’s lowest bid for a solar PV project.

Optimizing bifacial gain and balancing investment costs

According to an investigation conducted by public bodies, cross-mating of connectors was the main common denominator of the incidents studied.

A new handbook published by the World Bank and Solar Research Institute of Singapore contains advice on how to plan and build floating PV. The guide is intended to help developers with site identification; feasibility studies; finance; environmental and social issues; procurement and construction; and operations and maintenance.

A study has estimated the cost of PV project soiling may increase from €3-5 billion last year to €4-7 billion by 2023 due to more extensive deployment in high insolation and soiling-affected regions, such as China and India. The authors of the paper outlined the potential of soiling mitigation technologies while stressing more R&D is needed to reduce costs and for the adoption of such measures on a larger scale.

The EU’s Joint Research Center has created a comprehensive dataset to characterize the solar energy potential in the bloc’s 28 member states. The data shows even a 100-fold increase from current solar capacity would require a very limited amount of land – a lot less than wind power.

A renewable world will have fewer strategic locations and bottlenecks and less territorial competition.

A high-resolution geospatial assessment of the rooftop solar photovoltaic potential in the European Union

A hotter planet will make solar power less efficient

Huawei’s AI Evolution on PV Project

Product recall: SMA calls in some Tigo devices over rapid shutdown problem

LID in action-"trap-assisted auger recombination”

Shunfeng’s debt worries

Huawei world’s largest inverter provider in 2018 since 2016

SMA posts €175 million loss for 2018