by Mike Rycroft, EE Publishers
Silicon solar cells have been around for a long time. The most efficient solar panels on the market manage 22%,but unfortunately, the days of large improvements in efficiency have long been over. New technologies which offer higher efficiency are still years away from market, so the only road to higher performance is to squeeze a […]
by Roger Lilley, EE Publishers
RWW Engineering, a South African manufacturer of electrical equipment for industry and utilities, has been appointed the South African manufacturer of inverters for Spanish company Green Power Technologies. The inverters will be used at three 75 MW solar PV farms which are being built as part of Round 4 of South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent […]
by Mike Rycroft, EE Publishers
Many large ground based PV plants are now ageing, and are subject to increasing faults and failures, as well as deterioration due to aging and inspection and maintenance needs are increasing . Detection of such failures is difficult, taking the large number of panels into account. Aerial thermography and photography using unmanned vehicles, combined with […]
