Commercial & Industrial PV

Vikram Solar has unveiled new mono PERC bifacial modules with front-side power outputs from 635 W to 660 W. The modules feature glass-to-glass construction and provide up to 25% bifacial gain.

Germany deployed 4.3 GW of PV in the first seven months of the year, from 3.2 GW a year earlier.

Yingli’s 156-cell Panda 3.0 PRO module has a temperature coefficient of -0.30% per degree Celsius and is available in wattages ranging from 590 W to 615 W, with a bifaciality of more than 90%.

Dutch energy suppliers are arbitrarily setting net-metering tariffs for solar installations by taking advantage of a legal vacuum. However, Dutch PV analyst Peter Segaar says that current tariffs remain attractive.

Project Nexus expects to break ground on a canal-top solar project in the fall, with completion targeted by the end of 2023.

GAF Energy said its new production facility in Georgetown, Texas, will create hundreds of renewable energy jobs.

Researchers in Greece have developed three different transfer-learning strategies for solar power forecasting. The techniques are based on a stacked long short-term memory model, which is a kind of recurrent neural network that can learn order dependence in sequence prediction problems.

The urgency of rooftop solar uptake has only been accelerated by the current energy crisis, but the spread of PV to historic and landmarked buildings remains limited. In Europe, historic buildings constructed before 1945 represent at least a quarter of total building stock. To boost uptake, some municipalities are considering a loosening of their protection policies, while researchers are finding interesting byways for installation. Furthermore, building integrated PV solutions are being touted as the ideal compromise between aesthetic continuity and new generation opportunities.

A new 120 MW solar installation spread across 11 rooftops in China’s Jiangxi province is now the world’s largest single-capacity, building-integrated PV project.

Solar financing was a key topic on the third and last day of the Intersolar South America trade show in Sao Paulo, Brazil.