Tokyo-based startup Girasol Energy and the enterprise bureau of Japan’s Yamanashi prefecture have repowered Japan’s oldest PV system, a 100 kW array built in 1993. The project aimed to partially ...

Article 690 covers solar installations, except large-scale ones (those are covered in Article 691) [Sec. 690.1], as shown in Fig. 1. There are three important definitions: “Photovoltaic (PV) system” ...

PV module prices have finally stabilized and a slight downward trend has even started to set in. Whether this will continue depends mainly on how demand shapes up over the next few months. The ...

Andy Sofranko: A lot of repowering issues are coming out en masse now just with the timing of the life cycle of so much PV in the U.S. Like you said, it’s not dissimilar from routine refueling or ...

Huawei has announced that it has received the world’s first Carbon Footprint Verification (CFV) for solar inverter products, issued by the British Standards Institution (BSI). A globally-renowned body ...

Maximising the performance of tracked bifacial PV requires optimisation of technical and financial factors. Image: Nextracker PV systems combining bifacial and tracker technologies deliver the ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi, Kasakula. The nonprofit has ...

A readily accessible disconnecting means is required to disconnect power from each photovoltaic (PV) system [690.13(A)(1)], as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 1. A readily accessible disconnecting means is ...