solar digest for the latest solar industry news The solar park in Säve, outside Gothenburg, will be the largest so far in Sweden covering 11-hectares, a little less than 16 football fields, with a capacity of 5.5 MW. It is expected to generate approximately 5000 kWh of electricity a year per villa, so enough to satisfy the yearly electricity needs of 1,100 households.
The new string combiner boxes with integrated wireless modules from Phoenix Contact minimise the amount of cabling required when installing PV parks.
The new seamless solar park management system from Phoenix Contact is the foundation for comprehensive park management.
Paul Hutchens, Director of Midlands-based solar specialists Eco2Solar, discusses how the hot summer has impacted the solar industry, how Scotland is outstripping the rest of UK in green energy generation, how national legislation is failing to meet public demand for environmental policy and what this means for house builders and house owners.
PD IEC TS 62738
Ground-mounted Photovoltaic Power Plants
Design Guidelines And Recommendations
Publication Date: 22 August 2018
The Solar Trade Association (STA) today launched the UK solar industry’s first-ever best practice manual on the management and mitigation of network outages for Distribution Network Operators (DNOs), and for solar farms connected to their networks.