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Save thousands in solar PV management and administration costs.
The reduction in the Feed-in-Tariff has created numerous challenges for the solar PV industry and managing operational costs has been fundamental to the continued success of many businesses. In pursuing their efforts to address operational costs, owners of large domestic solar PV portfolios, such as social housing landlords, local authorities and investors face many challenges… Read more »
PV waste financing – an acyclic phenomenon
Working at the world’s first take-back and WEEE compliance scheme for photovoltaic modules, PV CYCLE staffs are often confronted with the question of why pay for something that has not yet occurred. While about 9 million tonnes of photovoltaic – or PV – modules had been installed in Europe by the end of 2015, only… Read more »
State of the art, next generation PV cell technology
The solar cell technology PERC enables PV cell manufacturers to decrease costs and increase efficiency. PES gets an insight on the state-of-the-art and next generation PERx technology from Mirko Meyer, Product Manager Meyer Burger, Germany, AG. The success story of photovoltaics has always been a technology story which is still being written. Numerous PV technology… Read more »
An outlook on the solar market in the MENA region
What happen in 2016 and what can we expect in 2017 2016 was a record breaking year for solar in the Middle East. With record low tariffs on Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) 800 MW Phase III project and Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority’s (ADWEA) Sweihan project, we could call it a successful… Read more »
Technological change is clearly on the horizon
Dieter Manz, founder and CEO of Manz AG talks to PES about the German high-tech engineering firm’s unwavering commitment to the CIGS thin-film solar technology and how it is about to pay off. PES: Would you like to begin by explaining a little about the background of your organization and how you currently serve the… Read more »
Highest throughput and minimal space
PES asked Gregor Reddemann, CEO at M10 Industries AG, about Kubus, innovation, sharing know-how and the future and discovered many more interesting things about this progressive company. PES: Welcome back to PES Solar. For our new reader would you like to introduce your company and explain a little about how you serve the solar industry?… Read more »
Solar comes of age
As photovoltaics emerge as the leading generation source of the future, with installations topping wind for the first time in 2016, the underlying production machine has reached maturity. While relatively recently, in the early 2010’s, uncertainty remained around the prospects of competing photovoltaic technologies. Thin-film companies championed CIGS and CdTe as the materials of choice… Read more »
Statics – a missing link in PV projects
In general mounting components play a minor role across the PV sector as a whole. Most of the focus is on PV modules, electricity and annual yield. Compared to the key role of these components, this is somehow astonishing. Additionally, there are daring improvements, for flat-roofs for example, where there has been far reaching development… Read more »
Comprehensive monitoring
Here we present a different take on our usual PES Ask the Experts. Patricia Darez, a director at 350renewables, interviews Marc Korevaar, a physicist at Kipp & Zonnen, to find out what makes the new RaZON+ stand out from its competitors. Patricia Darez: Congratulations on the new product, I haven’t had a chance yet to… Read more »
Intersolar North America
Celebrating its 10–year anniversary, Intersolar North America will once again be the first major solar event of the year. It takes place July 11-13 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, and is co-located with ees North America and SEMICON West. These combined events bring together professionals from the solar, energy storage and semiconductor industries… Read more »
