Designing new solar farms has gone hi-tech. It now uses drones to map the area and advanced computer modeling to orient the solar panels correctly and squeeze as many of them as possible into the available space.
GTM Research recently collected, compiled, and estimated solar PV manufacturing numbers for PVNews’ 29th annual PV production data collection effort, with data from RTS Corporation supplemented for the Japanese producers. One of the most striking (though expected) trends was that year-over-year solar module production stopped growing in leaps and bounds. In … [continued]
This is a special guest post from Kriss Bergethon, owner/founder of Solar Sphere. Solar power as we know it has been around for almost a century. Many people believe that its still the same basic technology that helped power early spacecraft and the White House in the 1970’s. But advancements … [continued]
