Solar energy equipment maker DuPont Photovoltaics Solutions and energy data firm Envision are to explore why solar panels degrade in hopes of making them more durable. The two companies will work together on a project that could help the U.S. Department of Energy develop new materials for solar-panel manufacturing. They plan to create an analytics platform that can identify when and why panels degrade.
Solar energy equipment maker DuPont Photovoltaics Solutions and energy data firm Envision are to explore why solar panels degrade in hopes of making them more durable. DuPont makes panel components and Envision manages more than 100 GW of energy through its internet of things (IoT) platform EnOS. They plan to create an analytics platform that can identify when and why panels degrade.