On September 1st, 2016, Reunion Island was on the front row to witness an extraordinary astronomical show: an annular eclipse. How did this rare event impact the photovoltaic generation, and the management of the local power grid? The Moon gradually blotted out the Sun in the morning of September 1st, successively casting its shadow from Equatorial Africa to the south of the Indian Ocean. Located
This article was originally published on SolarChoice. Re-produced with permission. Reuniwatt is a solar forecasting company born out of some of the most stringent electricity market conditions on the planet. Founded on France’s Reunion Island, Reuniwatt’s Soleka forecasting tool has been designed to meet the strict reliability standards of an island grid heavily reliant on medium and large-scale solar farms, and is of potential
Solar energy is the most abundant energy resource on the planet: the solar energy that strikes the Earth’s surface in one hour is approximately the same as the amount consumed by all human activities in one year. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), today, photovoltaic (PV) energy provides 0.1% of the total worldwide electricity production. In the IEA Solar PV Roadmap vision, PV
