According to NOAA, the total energy received on Earth from sunlight — the Total Solar Irradiance, as measured from satellites — increases by 0.1% during solar maximum. But that’s too small ...

The climate has changed in the past, long before humans, so how do scientists know our recent warming is caused by man?

images and global solar irradiance measurements. The scientists claim that the novel approach is able to improve solar nowcasting and intra-hour forecasting, while being applicable to PV real-time ...

A research group has proposed to hedge default risk in the utility-scale PV business by adopting credit default swaps. The ...

In a new weekly update for pv magazine, Solcast, a DNV company, reports that atmospheric conditions led to variations in solar conditions across North America. According to analysis using the Solcast ...

Since solar irradiance is about 120 W/m² (PDF warning), [Markus] is concentrating a lot of energy onto a point the size of a quarter, which would be necessary to heat up sand to its 1500° C ...