The first wave of solar innovation was focused on getting costs down. Now, the industry must look to software and automation to unlock the next phase of growth. My team at Energize Ventures is doing a ...

Originally launched in 1997, Solar Pro is a high-precision software tool for designing, analyzing, and evaluating the performance and economic feasibility of photovoltaic systems. With over 3,700 ...

A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near-Earth ...

Virtual Solar Field (VSF) is a software tool developed by the German Aerospace Center for the simulation of parabolic trough solar fields. Improvements in solar field control and operating strategies ...

A company that began as a free solar data website in 2011 has landed a $1.97 million grant to fine tune the product that, 13 years later, it calls “the world’s most advanced solar simulation engine”.

Perovskite solar cells offer high efficiency & low cost, but complex structures limit modeling. A new Python simulator enables 2D analysis of charge dynamics in intricate geometries. (Nanowerk News) ...

UNSW and DAS Solar used Quokka3 simulations to identify cut-induced losses in back-contact TOPCon cells, finding that ...