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Sandia uncovers hidden factors that affect solar farms during severe weather

News Article, August 31, 2021 • Machine learning found farm age, cloud cover impact performance during a storm Sandia National Laboratories researchers combined large sets of real-world solar data and advanced machine learning to study the impacts of severe weather on U.S. solar farms, and sort out what factors affect energy generation. Their results were published...
Thushara Gunda and Nicole Jackson in front of a PV panel

Stion Commissions PV System at Sandia Regional Test Center

News Article, September 23, 2015 • Stion PV system installed and the Sandia RTC site. Thin-film solar module manufacturer Stion has commissioned a 12 kW fixed latitude ground-mounted photovoltaic (PV) system at the DOE’s New Mexico Regional Test Center (RTC), located at Sandia. The system will be monitored and tested to collect a range of data...