Month: May 2023

Sunfolding’s new TopoTrack rows are 10 times shorter than traditional trackers, and they can provide 20 degrees of variation between trackers, thus improving slope tolerance between rows. May 31, 2023 What sets Sunfolding’s terrain-following tracker apart from other designs is pneumatics, a 360-year old technology that converts power into movement. Traditional trackers are mechanically more …

Terrain-following tracker with a pneumatic twist Read More »

Hail events have historically posed a considerable risk for utility solar projects, with weather instances creating up to $100 million in damages at large projects located in “Hail Alley” states such as Texas. May 30, 2023 With the utility-scale solar market experiencing a multi-gigawatt surge of development activity across America’s heartland states, insurers are now …

Software provider introduces hail detection solution for solar projects Read More »

The “efficient process solution” to interconnecting large-scale renewables and storage “is a combination of the ‘connect and manage’ interconnection approach with comprehensive regional transmission planning,” said Hannah Muller, head of markets and policy at Clearway Energy Group, on a webinar hosted by Advanced Energy United. Greg Geller, vice president and head of regulatory affairs for Enel North …

Clearway, Enel executives propose three ways to fix utility-scale interconnection Read More »

Daikin Applied Americas has developed an air-to-water heat pump that can produce 91.2 kW of heat and 23.58 tons of cooling. The new device can be used as a cascade system with water-to-water heat pumps, and can switch between cooling and heating modes, depending on temperature requirements. May 30, 2023 From pv magazine global Daikin …

Daikin unveils air-to-water heat pump for commercial applications Read More »