Published

2 years ago

July 23, 2024

Alice Rush

GameChange Solar has completed a third-party validation of its bifacial PV modeling performance through Enertis Applus+.

The company uses the bifacial_radiance software tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to model these types of solar systems, which the company says considers parameters such as structure shading factor, mismatch loss factor and transparency factor.

The company says it models the bifacial parameters with the software tool to use as input to PVSyst, the industry’s main bankable software. Enertis Applus+ conducted an independent technical validation of the methodology.

“Bifacial modules can increase the cost of a solar module by one to two cents per watt, so the modeling accuracy with solar trackers is extremely important to justify the higher cost,” says Vikas Bansal, GameChange Solar’s international president.
“Having our modeling performance validated by Enertis Applus+ is important to ensure our clients achieve greater energy production and lower LCOE. As always, we remain committed to continuous innovation and excellence in solar technology.”

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GameChange Solar Completes Third-Party Validation from Enertis Applus+

Renewable Energy

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Published

7 hours ago

March 22, 2026

Alice Rush

It’s not as if the United States has held the moral high ground throughout its history, with its slavery, the butchering of the Indians, Jim Crow, the support of tyrannical dictatorships around the globe, and the corrupt suppression of the working class in favor of Trump’s billionaire donors.

Yet, it was very recently that the entire nation became a force for the destruction of civil society.

The Catastrophic Shift in America’s Impact on the World

Renewable Energy

We’re Running Out of Time

Published

2 days ago

March 20, 2026

Alice Rush

There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity:

• World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.)

• Environmental collapse.

• Malicious use of AI.

• Pandemics, as misinformation on vaccinations spread and the frozen tundra melts, releasing pathogens never seen by humans.

• Nuclear war.

Addressing the point made at left, is there any scenario in which world governments agree to cooperate so as to stave off the end of an organized society here on Earth? One supposes so, though it sounds far-fetched in today’s world in which the leaders of most of the 200+ sovereign nations are trying so desperately to cling to power.