The first wave of solar innovation was focused on getting costs down. Now, the industry must look to software and automation to unlock the next phase of growth. My team at Energize Ventures is doing a ...

Switerzland-based Lumartix has developed a steady-state solar simulator system for research labs. It claims a light emitter lifetime of more than 20,000 hours. Spire Solar Iberia has developed a state ...

Solargis has launched a new cloud-based solution for PV project design and evaluation. Evaluate 2.0 is the next generation of the PV data company’s Evaluate solution. It said the new solution – ...

Chattanooga, Tennessee’s airport to be first in US to meet its energy needs with 100% solar power. New software aims to simulate how solar panels will interact with the grid. The new Affordable Clean ...

As solar modules become more sophisticated, the techniques used to simulate energy performance need to become more advanced. Image: Nextracker. Bifacial photovoltaic (PV) technology has emerged as the ...

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Azuray Technologies, an emerging leader in solar power electronics, announced today that Renhe Photovoltaic Technology will display a MPPT power optimizer ‘smart ...

For the first time, scientists have modeled the entire life cycle of solar flares, those violent eruptions of intense heat and radiation from the surface of the sun. The new computer model is part of ...

In this video, scientists from NCAR and Lockheed Martin simulate the formation of a solar flare, including for the first time the spectrum of light emissions known to be associated with such flares.