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Welcome to the November (#30) edition of the Solar Asset Management Newsletter
Keeping you up-to-date on the latest developments, headlines, reports & events on the increasingly important topic of solar asset management, including Operations & Maintenance, optimization and portfolio & financial management.
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HIGHLIGHTED CONTENT
Solving the problem of bird soiling on PV plants
SOLARPLAZA – Birds can cause significant loss of production on water-borne projects. This is why solar power plant owners are resorting to sophisticated bird deterrence systems in a bid to eliminate soiling problems on projects on or near water. In some cases, these laser systems helped to bring about a 75% reduction in birds whose droppings can cause up to a 30% loss of production. – Read more
Overview of European PV capacity running out of feed-in-tariffs & alternative revenue streams
SOLARPLAZA – This article examines the ending of feed-in tariffs and the respective available capacity across 8 European countries, and alternative solutions for when these tariffs come to the end of their cycle.- Read more
TECHNICAL
- PV increases efficiency of cultivatable land use by more than 60%, Fraunhofer ISE says
- AI, machine learning and robots could overhaul solar supply chains, DNV GL says
- What happens when… modules get dirty
- GoodWe launches the world’s first AC-coupled retrofit inverter
- What happens when… several module strings fail?
- Solar Inverter Consolidation Will Continue: ‘Prices Show No Sign of Stabilizing’
- Ingeteam turns to the skies for PV power plant optimization
- Digital technologies in energy to reach to $64 bn by 2025, BNEF reports
- Aggregation: An Unstoppable Trend in Solar Power Plant Monitoring
- Digitalization a ‘huge opportunity’ for solar in Europe – report
FINANCIAL
- BayWa sells remaining UK portfolio (75MW) to Greencoat Capital
- BELECTRIC expands cooperation with Luxcara and takes over maintenance and operations at existing PV power plants in France
- Sky Solar acquires 24 MW photovoltaic projects in Chile
- ERG acquires 89MW solar portfolio in Italy
- Octopus expands solar portfolio by 100 MW
- Platina Energy Partners sell 34.5 MW photovoltaic portfolio in Italy
- Innergex acquires Alterra Power
- CSIF acquires initial Japan PV portfolio for $267 million
- NextEnergy reaches agreement to acquire eight solar plants totalling 34.5MW
- Dutch pension fund ABP invests €330 million in three U.S. projects
- India’s Essel Infra To Sell 685 Megawatts Of Solar Power Assets
- NextEra Energy Partners to buy 691MW renewable assets for $812m
- TransCanada to sell 76MW PV portfolio in Ontario to Axium