Every solar panel company makes bold claims about its panel efficiency, maximum wattage availability, temperature coefficient and other specs in optimal conditions. Anyone who does product testing ...

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The global solar boom has introduced a new urgency around asset durability, performance, and risk. As utility-scale solar farms become more common, so do the invisible defects that compromise ...

Solar power has become the lowest-cost way to generate electricity on Earth. But building it on Earth places some significant limits on how much power it can generate, with the darkness and clouds ...

Summer is here, and if you have been planning to spend more time outdoors, a portable solar panel can be a great investment. These can keep your power stations charged wherever the sun shines, but not ...

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VDE Americas and RETC, part of the VDE Group, today introduced the Hail Resiliency Curve (HRC) Test, a groundbreaking test protocol designed to evaluate solar panel ...

The 75-meter-high steel structure hosting systems for testing space-based solar power, at Xidian University in Xi'an, north China. Credit: Xidian University HELSINKI — China’s Xidian University has ...

A new hail test for solar panels shoots small to large hailstones at solar panels while aimed to more accurately determine the panel’s breaking point. Introduced by VDE Americas, the “Hail Resiliency ...

A research team at Xidian University in China announced it has successfully tested technology that would enable a space-based solar power plant that could transmit energy to Earth, akin to similar ...