Applications & Installations
Among energy technologies, solar is unique in its flexibility and range of applications. Rapidly growing niches including floating PV and agrivoltaics are proving their worth alongside the more established rooftop and ground mount market segments.
Hybrid systems combining solar with energy storage and other generation technologies are also becoming more common, in the pursuit of 24/7 emissions free energy. And this brings our industry into more frequent contact with other concerns, that need to be carefully managed.
Latest News
Ireland’s leap of faith to power data centers
Under Ireland’s Large Energy User Action Plan (LEAP), 10 MW-plus data centers must provide at least 80% of their energy demand through new onsite renewable energy generation and storage. But whether data centers can meaningfully contribute to Ireland’s decarbonization depends on the success of its grid buildout, reports Blathnaid O’Dea.
Solar’s infrastructure obstacle
During the development of a recent utility-scale project in Texas’ ERCOT grid interconnection zone, Levona Renewables CEO Fernando Queiroz found his team spending more time evaluating transmission infrastructure, interconnection requirements, equipment availability, and utility procurement processes than discussing solar modules – a striking realization affecting project developers in the United States and beyond.
El Niño transition and a subtropical shift reshape Asia’s summer solar resource
In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that Summer 2026 brought sharply contrasting solar conditions across Asia, as a northward-shifted Western Pacific Subtropical High reduced irradiance in Northeast China while boosting it across central China. Farther south, developing El Niño conditions and a positive Indian Ocean Dipole suppressed cloud across eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, driving irradiance up to 25% above average.
A closer look at Fred. Olsen 1848’s load-decoupled modular floating PV system for nearshore applications
In an interview with pv magazine, Fred. Olsen 1848 CTO Geir Grimsrud discussed the company’s Brizo floating PV technology, a modular rope-mesh platform designed to withstand harsh nearshore conditions while simplifying installation and maintenance. Grimsrud also outlined the system’s testing and validation with DNV and the company’s plans to move the technology toward commercial deployment and compliance with new floating PV standards.
What happens to a ready-to-build solar project if a wildfire hits the site?
What happens if a wildfire affects a ready-to-build (RTB) solar project? Can developers recover their financial guarantees if the project becomes unviable? Jochen Beckmann, a lawyer at Rödl Barcelona, analyzes the key legal and administrative implications for pv magazine.Ireland’s leap of faith to power data centers
Hydrostor has received grid connection approval for its “near-shovel ready” Silver City Energy Storage Centre project being developed in Broken Hill, New South Wales. The project, the first of its kind in Australia, features a 200 MW underground compressed air energy storage (CAES) facility that will deliver 1,600 MWh, or at least eight hours, of …
