Tag: News
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Solar Support debuts end-of-warranty solar plant and equipment assessment service
Solar Support, a specialized engineering company with a broad portfolio of reliability solutions, now offers independent plant and equipment end-of-warranty assessment services for utility-PV asset owners. The services include onsite review of system and equipment performance as well as detailed documentation owners can use to secure support before EPC andRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Global PV on track to lose $14.5 billion a year in fixable issues by 2024 says Raycatch report
Raycatch, a start-up that has developed an AI-driven digital asset management system of solar PV assets, analyzed raw data derived from 75 geographically diverse utility-scale solar plants with a total capacity of 1.2 GW, and its findings are fairly startling: • 65% of the plants have disconnected strings, 55% have invertersRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Time to revisit standalone solutions to solve rapid shutdown system design
Rapid shutdown probably feels like old news at this point, but the product market is just now hitting its stride. Initially, the NEC 2017 and 2020 code changes directly favored the technology of certain module-level power electronic brands, and early versions of inverter-agnostic rapid shutdown devices that paired with stringRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How JinkoSolar faired in a national assessment of PV Modules Testing Accuracy
JinkoSolar‘s R&D Center module laboratory obtained satisfactory results in the latest national assessment of PV Modules Testing Accuracy. Organized by the National Institute of Metrology, China (NIM) and China Building Material Test & Certification Group (CTC) – results of the “Monofacial/ Bifacial PV Module’s Electrical Parameter Testing Capability Verification” wereRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Nexamp secures $440 million for community solar portfolio of nearly 100 projects
Nexamp has emerged as the largest owner-operator of community solar assets across the sector’s fastest growing markets, and a financing deal announced today hammers this home: Nexamp Inc. closed a $440 million senior secured credit facility for a 380-MW portfolio of solar and energy storage assets, the largest debt financing ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine