Featured in Triumph for our times – 01-2016

Fine-tuning the sun

Utility-scale monitoring: With every passing day more and more solar panels are installed at large-scale sites across the world. Each panel represents a new possibility in a cleaner energy future, but despite their durability, things can, and do, go wrong. But solar’s maturation has nurtured a growing monitoring sector that not only identifies and understands faults, but can offer predictive modeling to reduce risk before ground is broken.

An oft-repeated benefit of solar PV is the rallying call: “It just works!” Power plant owners may have to wrestle with financials, logistics, suppliers and governments in order to get their solar park constructed and connected, but once the panels are in place and the cables are connected, most asset owners have generally been happy …

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