The pvlib community is looking forward to another pvlib hackathon at the 2024 PV Performance Modeling Workshop in Salt Lake City. The format this year will be similar to last year—less like a two-hour ...

The Terawatt PV 100 ranks the top 100 solar manufacturing companies using a new methodology based on production scale, financial strength, and corporate transparency, with Tongwei leading the Q1 2026 ...

Utility-scale solar PV and wind accounted for 17% of the US’ total electricity generation in 2025, a record figure and an increase over the 16% reported in 2024. This is according to the US Energy ...

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada have proposed using polycarbonate (PC) as an encapsulant for solar module assembly to replace ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), which is ...

US solar giant First Solar signed a patent licensing agreement with the UK’s Oxford PV, a University of Oxford spin‑off, giving it access to issued and pending patents covering perovskite materials, ...

Oxford PV, a solar perovskite company operating in Europe, has opened its patent portfolio to American panel manufacturer First Solar. First Solar has signed a patent licensing agreement with Oxford ...

U.S. solar industry veteran and unofficial historian Jeff Spies announced last week that the documentary film “Solar Roots – The Pioneers of PV” will make its official public debut at the Solar Roots ...

Abstract: This paper presents a detailed tutorial on the numerical simulation of photovoltaic (PV) cells using single-, two-, and three-diode equivalent circuit models. These models capture ...

Carbon dioxide removal is most likely needed for rebalancing the climate to comply with the 1.5 C target set in the Paris Agreement, as data suggest this level has already been breached on an annual ...

Shares of Chinese solar panel makers surged Wednesday. Staff linked to Elon Musk had reportedly visited several photovoltaic suppliers in China. The reports had fueled speculation for potential ...

1 Saudi Electricity Company, Bisha, Saudi Arabia. 2 Renewable Energy Researcher, Bisha University, Bisha, Saudi Arabia. 3 Department of Physics, College of Science and Humanities, Imam Abdualrahman ...

New solar photovoltaic (PV) systems for City of Menlo Park facilities are planned as part of the Belle Haven Community Campus (BHCC) microgrid and Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE)’s Solar and Storage for ...