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Golden, CO, Feb. 21, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Participants in a workshop organized by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) agree on the importance of mitigating
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Aside from the immediate, visible damage, extreme weather events have a longer lasting impact on PV systems. NREL’s Dirk C. Jordan, Kirsten Perry, Robert White, Josh Parker, Byron McDanold and Chris Deline report on research revealing the long-term consequences of hail, wind and other weather phenomena on PV production.
An herbicide used in cotton fields is devastating vineyards on the High Plains. Grape growers are suing the companies that make it.
Determining how many years a solar panel will last can take, well, years. Intended to function for 25 years or more, solar panels must be made to withstand the elements. In some cases, panels continue working well after their planned operational lifetime. Nowhere is this more evident than on the sunny hillside in Golden, Colorado, where the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) operates the Outdoor Test Facility (OTF). The OTF continues to run tests on photovoltaic (PV) panels made by companies still very much interested in the outcome. The OTF is equipped to perform accelerated test...