Disaster preparedness—understanding and mitigating solar generation risk due to extreme weather events such as wildfires, snowstorms and hail—has become a pressing
concern for solar asset owners and investors.
One significant type of disaster impacting PV production in Western North America and beyond is large wildfires.
In some locations, wildfires reduced annual generation by up to 6%, meaning wildfires now rival cloud cover as a production risk for some projects.
Short of predicting the future, what can stakeholders do to quantify and mitigate this risk?
In this 40-minute, on-demand webinar, you’ll learn how the latest Clean Power Research solutions can be used to quantify PV production risk from extreme weather events such as wildfires and improve performance benchmarking with site-specific, data-driven snow and soiling loss estimates.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
In this 40-minute, on-demand webinar, you’ll learn how the latest Clean Power Research solutions can be used to quantify PV production risk from extreme weather events such as wildfires and improve performance benchmarking with site-specific, data-driven snow and soiling loss estimates.
In this webinar, you’ll learn about:
- Wildfire case study: How regional aerosol events such as wildfires impact PV production and soiling losses
- A scalable approach to site-specific soiling and snow loss estimates using high-fidelity environmental data
- Improved solar performance benchmarking for asset management
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About the Speakers
Akanksha Bhat
Product Manager
Akanksha is a product manager on the SolarAnywhere team at Clean Power Research. In this role, she focuses on how solar developers, owners and other stakeholders can use SolarAnywhere’s data and intelligence solutions to make better energy decisions.
Before joining Clean Power Research, Akanksha worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory where she worked on DER interconnection standards and techno-economic assessment of renewables for Net-zero energy homes. Akanksha holds an M.S. in Systems Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from India.
Marc J R Perez, Ph.D.
Lead Researcher
Marc is Lead Researcher at Clean Power Research in California. He is a trained scientist with 20 years of experience in the solar PV sector across multiple roles: C&I development, academia, corporate research and software development. At Clean Power Research, Marc manages a four-person science and research team in the areas of high penetration solar, solar potential assessment using remote sensing data, solar forecasting, PV spec inference, DER adoption and other domains.
Marc holds his PhD, M.S. and M.Phil in Earth & Environmental Engineering from Columbia University in New York where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Egleston Doctoral Scholar and was awarded the Star fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency. He holds a B.S. in Optical Engineering and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Rochester.
Akanksha Bhat
Product Manager
Marc J R Perez, Ph.D.
Lead Researcher
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