Dry August boosts Dallas solar soiling losses to near-record 2%

Drought conditions in Texas pushed photovoltaic soiling losses toward an unprecedented 2% in August, while divergent weather across North America—including heavy rain in Hawaii and improved conditions in the Pacific Northwest—created a mixe

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8d PV Magazine Dry August pushes Dallas soiling losses towards 2% as North American GHI diverges — In a new weekly update for pv magazine , Solcast, a DNV company, reports that August irradiance fell across the Great Lakes but rose across the Pacific…

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Appeared in: 2026-09-18 (#7) · 2026-09-19 (#10)

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