Finlay Colville, head of market research at Solar Media, said module prices will remain high for at least the next 18 months, additional capacity will be quickly eaten up by soaring demand, and adding capacity outside China is seen as risky. Speaking at the Solar Finance and Investment Europe (SFIE) conference in London, hosted by PV Tech publisher Solar Media in London, Colville said that over th...
On March 28, Eastern Time, the U.S. Department of Commerce said it would launch an investigation that may lead to anti-circumvention investigations into solar products imported from Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. The specific timetable is: 1) Beginning on March 28, US time, the US Department of Commerce began to conduct an anti-circumvention investigation on solar products imported from...
After being approved by the South Korean board of directors on February 22, LG Electronics announced that the company will withdraw from the global solar module manufacturing business. LG Electronics said increased material and logistics costs and severe supply constraints were the main reasons for the decision to halt solar module manufacturing. It is reported that LG's 550MW solar ...
Solar storage system, including solar modules, controllers, inverters, batteries, loads and other equipment. At present, there are many technical routes, but the energy needs to be collected at a certain point. At present, there are mainly two topologies of DC coupling "DC Coupling" and AC coupling "AC Coupling". 1, DC coupling As shown in the figure below, the DC power generated by the photovolta...
According to the latest annual clean energy statistics report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the installed capacity of off-grid photovoltaic systems installed around the world has barely increased since the outbreak of theCOVID-19 in 2020. According to the report released by the agency, most of the countries that own and operate off-grid PV systems aroun...
What is a DC arc? Arc is a kind of gas discharge phenomenon, the instantaneous spark generated by the current passing through some insulating medium, such as air, this is the arc. Both direct current and alternating current produce arcs. Sometimes when we plug in the socket, we will see a fire, which is a kind of AC arc. In a DC system, such as that caused by a string of photovoltaic cells, this a...
The dust falling on the surface of the photovoltaic module will block the sunlight on the one hand, reduce the transmittance of the surface glass of the photovoltaic module, and reduce the amount of solar radiation irradiated on the surface of the solar panel; It absorbs solar radiation and converts it into its own heat energy, and at the same time blocks the external heat dissipation of the photo...
PID effect is Potential Induced Degradation. The direct harm of PID to the module is that a large amount of charge accumulates on the surface of the cell, which aggravates the passivation effect of the cell surface, resulting in a decrease in the fill factor, open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current of the cell, and the power of the cell module is attenuated, and the attenuation degree can r...
As the "heart" of photovoltaic power generation, the health of the inverter is closely related to the smooth operation of the photovoltaic power generation system. It is necessary to understand common inverter alarms and accurately determine the cause of inverter alarms. 1. Inverter alarms not caused by internal devices If the screen or APP shows that the EEPROM fails, it can usually be repaired b...
The power generation of photovoltaic power plants is determined by many factors, among which the key factors are irradiance and ambient temperature. Hot summer is often accompanied by high temperature, not high irradiance. The temperature characteristics of solar modules are negative temperature coefficients, and the power generation performance of modules will decrease as the temperature increase...
First of all, the basis of the working principle of solar cells is the photovoltaic effect of the semiconductor PN junction. The so-called photovoltaic effect is an effect in which electromotive force and current are generated when the object is illuminated, the state of charge distribution in the object changes. When sunlight or other light hits the PN junction of the semiconductor, a voltage app...
The large number of solar panels installed in the early 2000s is approaching the end of its life cycle, which poses a serious problem for the solar industry, and current solar panel disposal methods fall far short of environmental requirements. In theory, solar energy is more promising than ever. Solar cells are getting easier and cheaper to produce. But solar PVs have some less-talked-about quest...