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Estimating potential-induced degradation in PV systems used for water pumping

Researchers in Spain have developed a new method to estimated potential-induced degradation (PID) in solar modules used in PV-driven water pumping systems. The proposed approach can detect PID from ...
PV Tech

String versus central versus modular: what’s next for inverter technology?

For many years, the utility-scale solar PV market has been dominated by central and string inverters, with each claimed to have their own benefits for utility-scale solar applications. Lately, modular ...
pv magazine International

PV module fault diagnosis uses convolutional neural network

Researchers in China have created a dataset of various PV faults and normalized it to accommodate different array sizes and typologies. After testing the new approach in combination with the 1D-CNN ...
Optics

Module-level sensors detect faults in large solar power plants early

Large photovoltaic power plants often comprise tens of thousands of modules and components. Whenever individual solar modules malfunction, intact bypass diodes can contain a strong power loss in the ...
Business Wire

ON Semiconductor’s SiC Power Modules to Support Delta’s Solar PV Inverters

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON), driving energy efficient innovations, has introduced a full SiC power module for solar inverter applications, which has been selected by the ...