Featured in Arctech Solar Special Edition 2019

Giving it a whirl in Krabi

Bifacial modules combined with PV trackers are a hot industry topic and the first large-scale installations are now online. But investors are still figuring out the right balance between capex and yield gains, leaving EPC service providers stuck at the drawing board.

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Marian Willuhn

31 Oct 2019

Image: Lars Griehl, IB Vogt

Building solar plants has become a game of marginal gains, and IB Vogt’s procurement director, Patrick Zenker, knows a thing or two about this subject. He recently met with pv magazine to explain that in the end, solar plants are financial products, and that the right balance between componentry, costs and engineering must be found. “The …

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