Scientists in China have investigated how frame perforations can help reduce the operational temperatures of solar modules through air cooling. Their findings show that the number of perforations must ...

‘We believe the transition to steel as the standard will be very, very rapid,’ says Origami CEO Gregg Patterson. Image: Origami Solar. A lot can happen in less than a year, especially in the solar ...

pv magazine: How did you get started with Origami Solar? Gregg Patterson: The one thing in a PV system that hasn’t changed or seen any real innovation in the 60-plus years that solar has been around ...

Catastrophic-type glass breakage in PV modules. Image: Valentin, D. et al. 2022, “Failure investigation of a solar tracker due to wind-induced torsional galloping”. In recent years PV modules have ...