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Tag: utility-scale

  • Snapshot of PG&E’s solar energy, battery storage portfolio at year-end 2020

    Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) reports that it exceeded California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) goal requiring energy providers to deliver 33% renewable energy by the end of 2020. PG&E estimates that it delivered over 35% from specified eligible-renewable resources to its customers last year, according to its recent FormRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The case for large-scale solar plant repowering-as-a-service

    Operations and maintenance (O&M) is mostly about keeping the status quo of a solar plant. Fix issues. Prevent failures. Hit benchmarks. But in a tech-driven industry, is maintaining the status quo of a decades-old legacy site the best strategy? Many plant owners and operators are facing this question as theirRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar Support debuts end-of-warranty solar plant and equipment assessment service

    Solar Support, a specialized engineering company with a broad portfolio of reliability solutions, now offers independent plant and equipment end-of-warranty assessment services for utility-PV asset owners. The services include onsite review of system and equipment performance as well as detailed documentation owners can use to secure support before EPC andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Global PV on track to lose $14.5 billion a year in fixable issues by 2024 says Raycatch report

    Raycatch, a start-up that has developed an AI-driven digital asset management system of solar PV assets, analyzed raw data derived from 75 geographically diverse utility-scale solar plants with a total capacity of 1.2 GW, and its findings are fairly startling: • 65% of the plants have disconnected strings, 55% have invertersRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Hershey’s big environmental plans include two utility-scale solar PPAs

    The Hershey Co. announced a slew of commitments to advance its environmental progress and contribute to global climate action. In 2019, the company committed to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to audit its operations and develop targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in line with the best available climateRead More — Solar Builder magazine