Patrick Keelin | May 10, 2022
According to NOAA, in 2021, the U.S. experienced 20 separate, billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, second only to the record 22 separate billion-dollar events in 2020. The diversity of disasters was notable, as seen in the graphic below. Several disasters...
Patrick Keelin & Jing Huang | Apr 20, 2022
Sunlight is dynamic. Imagine sunlight filtering through broken, drifting clouds. Shadows and light race across the landscape. The sun tracks across the sky. This is the real world that solar systems operate in. It’s no surprise that hourly PV modeling—still solar...
Akanksha Bhat & Marc Perez | Jan 31, 2022
PV soiling losses can increase the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of solar power plants by as much as one cent per kWh, depending on the project site. With the average LCOE of solar generation expected to decrease to 1-5 cents/kWh globally by the year 2050, the...
Patrick Keelin & Agata Swierc | Oct 26, 2021
The solar market is maturing and off-takers are increasingly asking for clean, guaranteed power production regardless of the weather. This trend towards firm solar power delivery is visible in corporate commitments to operate on carbon-free energy 24/7, 365 days a...
Akanksha Bhat | Sep 14, 2021
Solar PV is poised to become the new “king of electricity generation” according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which predicts solar to lead the surge in renewable power supply over the next decade. Across the U.S. alone, solar is expected to account for 40%...