Thursday, 17 December 2020 The solar sector must take action to plug gaps in its use of resource data or risk undermining the success of a growing pipeline of large-scale, gigawatt projects worldwide according to data and software architects for bankable solar investments, Solargis. Courtesy of NREL The solar PV industry has seen an increase in ‘megaprojects’ globally, such as the 1.6 GW Benban project in Egypt and India’s 2.2 GW Bhadla Solar Park. More widely, the average size of a solar project has increased from tens of MW in 2013 to hundreds of MW in 2020. This growth offers significant economies of scale in project financing and construction, but it also exposes project developers and operators to new risks – particularly where industry standards of solar resource data have failed to keep pace with the trend for larger projects in more testing geographies.