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Soft services, hard impacts

The application of IoT, tapping, and analytics of big data, and much hyped applications like blockchain are making an impact on the solar PV sector and related devices, and also their interactions with the grid. But software has played an important role in the evolution of our industry dating back some 30 years.

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Jonathan Gifford, Marian Willuhn

11 Sep 2018

Screenshot from Solaredge’s virtual power plant solution. | Image: Solaredge

“There is a transition from an electricity grid, to a network,” explained Sam Wilkinson, Associate Director for Solar and Energy Storage at IHS Markit, from the stage at the SNEC Conference in Shanghai earlier this year. He noted that the transition from a unidirectional to a bi-directional grid, with generation assets dispersed throughout the network, …

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