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Floating PV Monitoring: Advancing Sustainability with Smart Sensor Technology

Solar and hydropower are two pillars of the global renewable energy mix, but their true potential emerges when they work together. Research from the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests...
21. November 2025
Solar Energy
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Podcast: What is Agrivoltaics? Live From the Agrivoltaics World Conference

The utility-scale solar photovoltaics sector is constantly changing as experts find new ways to optimize limited environmental resources. Agrivoltaics is a fascinating innovation for land-scarce regions that combines farming and...
25. July 2025
MeteorologySolar Energy

Solar Radiation: How Dew, Frost, and Soiling Affect Irradiance Monitoring, and Ways to Mitigate

Don’t Let Dew, Frost, or Dirt Cloud Your Data Accurate measurement of solar radiation is essential for applications ranging from climate modeling and atmospheric research to solar energy forecasting. Yet,...
10. June 2025
MeteorologySolar Energy
DustIQ Soiling Sensor next to PV modules

Soiling Measurement and Monitoring on Photovoltaic Sites

Prior to a webinar on O&M efficiency with SolarCleano, a Luxembourg-based company specializing in solar panel-cleaning robotics, we sat down with Udo Kronmueller, our Applications Development Manager for Solar. Udo...
12. November 2024
Solar Energy
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Solar PV Webinars: A Roundup of Three Popular Sessions

The photovoltaics industry is regarded as one of the fastest-growing sectors in renewable energy. With advancing technological innovations, emerging trends blending how to use PV sites (AgroPV as an example),...
4. November 2024
Solar Energy
Sun Trackers Kipp & Zonen RaZON+ (left) and SOLYS2

How to Choose the Right Sun Tracker?

A complete measurement of solar irradiance includes global (GHI), direct (DNI), and diffuse (DHI or DIF) radiation. To accomplish this, a high-quality solar monitoring station typically comprises an automatic sun...
17. October 2023
MeteorologySolar Energy

Podcast: Introduction to PV Soiling – Background, Impact, and Treatment Options

Dirty PV modules generate less energy than clean ones. This phenomenon called “soiling” sums up to losses of several billion dollars every year. Cleaning increases efficiency, but comes at a...
6. June 2023
Solar Energy

Top 5 Most Read Blog Articles 2022

The information and stories people look for tell a lot about a certain period. In 2022, the most read articles on this blog show a growing interest in solar energy...
4. January 2023
HydrologyMeteorologySolar Energy
Pyranometer PV Plant

How Trimark Boosts Efficiency of PV Plants With Precise Meteorological Data

We all know that fluctuations in the output of a photovoltaics plant are inevitable and can occur for lots of reasons. Due to these fluctuations plant operators run the risk...
19. October 2022
Solar Energy

Solar Energy Insights: Soiling, ISO 9060:2018, Floatovoltaics, and more

Voilà, here is the third issue of OTT HydroMet Insights! This time, we take a detailed look at the solar energy landscape, international standards, new applications and technologies.Around the world,...
2. June 2022
Solar Energy