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PID on solar cells: causes and mitigations strategy
When PID effect can a be an underperformance root-cause of a solar farm The performance of your solar park does not reach your expectations? Unexplainable power losses have been noticed? This can be due to a Potential Induced Degradation (PID). PID effects in a solar...
How to ensure an optimum design of a solar park?
A successful project always starts with a good solar power plant design. A good design ensures an optimum balance between the costs of the system and the anticipated output. However, a well-thought-out design also ensures lower maintenance costs. We regularly receive...
Welcoming a new Asset Manager for the United Kingdom
UK Greensolver office welcomes Stephen Horry as Asset Manager for wind & solar assets in the United Kingdom. With about 13 years of experience in the wind energy industry, Stephen Horry as just joined Greensolver team as Asset Manager. As part of his daily duty,...
Greensolver supports Innergex with wind assets acquisition
Greensolver provided expert feedback on 119.5 MW of French wind assets. Greensolver, the independent technical expert for wind & solar assets, was selected by Canadian renewable energy producer Innergex to provide due diligence advisory work on one of the largest...
Greensolver to deliver HSE expertise to ib vogt in the Netherlands
Greensolver to advise ib vogt on HSE on 9.3 MWp Geldermalsen project. Greensolver, the independent technical expert for wind & solar assets, has been selected by German solar EPC and expert, ib vogt to advise their team on Health & Safety topics. First of...
Greensolver Index now available for solar assets
Asset manager Greensolver launches new version of its benchmarking tool allowing performance comparison of solar parks. Greensolver, the independent technical expert for wind and solar assets, has announced that its unique performance benchmarking tool, Greensolver...
The 5 most common problems with solar inverters
At Greensolver, we manage 800 MW of wind and solar assets for our clients. We see that the production loss on solar PV systems is often attributable to the poor performance of inverters. Defective inverters can lead to significant production losses. Whilst the modules...
The five most common problems with solar panels
We manage 800 MW of sustainable energy assets for our clients, and we regularly see that production loss on solar assets is attributable to the panels. Problems with panels can result in a production loss of up to 20%, since a poorly-performing panel will affect the...
Solar Farm : How to improve the project yield?
It is not uncommon for us to see in the solar parks which Greensolver manages that the actual energy yield deviates from the original forecast energy yield. However, a correct estimate of the yield on site is crucial for the correct design of the system and thereby...
How to save money from blades?
It is no secret that exposed to both environmental risks and events (rain, ice, hail, snow, lightning…), blades are amongst the most at-risk components of a wind turbine. However, here at Greensolver we have often seen cases where blades are not considered by asset...