Large Scale Solar Magazine Article Archives

Meg Cichon

Solar Tracking Systems Gain Ground

It sounds obvious: put solar panels on a movable mount to follow the sun and catch as much sunlight as possible. But applying solar trackers to a project is not clear cut. Developers...

Tildy Bayar

Developing South American Solar: Playing the Long Game

After securing a US$41.4 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank in March, Spanish project developer Solarpack began construction on its 25.5 MW Pozo Almonte solar plant...

The Rise of Utility-scale Solar

We are familiar with the inexorable and welcome march of solar panels across our rooftops, but many might be surprised that utility-scale power plants are now the fastest-growing application for the photovoltaics (PV) industry. This sector has delivered...

David Appleyard

Tracking the Price of U.S. Grid-connected PV

As the deployment of grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has increased, so too has the desire to track the installed price of these systems over time and by location, customer...

A Business Case for Solar

Vaughn K Buntain, managing director of RE Solutions and matchmaker between investors and project managers of large-scale solar plants, believes that 'suppliers to the solar industry have historically been order takers. The new environment requires suppliers...

Elisa Wood

Gardens That Grow Gigawatts

Like so many people, Joy Hughes wanted to do something for the victims of the July 2012 mass shooting in a movie theatre in Aurora, Colorado in the US. But while others held vigils...

Is Timeshifting PV's Post-Incentive Future?

Timeshifting. The ability to store something for consumption at a more convenient time. Great for watching your favourite television shows. Ideal for solar PV, too, but sadly we are not at a stage where solar energy is widely timeshifted via a programmable...