How to Accelerate and Scale Your Renewable Energy Plan

How do you evaluate quotes for a solar system? What’s the best electric vehicle for me to buy? Should I buy batteries for my solar energy system? How do I get a job in the solar industry?These are a few of the hot topics we’ll be discussing in our new webinar series. In our first informative webinar, Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Cinnamon Energy Systems and host of The Energy Show podcast will teach consumer attendees how to properly evaluate and compare solar quotes from multiple solar installers. Barry will review typical pricing, how to evaluate an installer’s quality, solar panel equipment, and everything you need to select the best installer for your home solar system.

The Midwest is home to large open spaces, farms, former industrial cities and famously friendly people, yet there is only around 2.3 GW of solar deployed across 12 states in the Midwest; or less than 4% of the U.S. total. Nearly half of that is in one state, Minnesota. Now with the advent of FEJA, Illinois is adding 2.8 GW of community solar, DG and utility scale projects in the next few years. New legislation like the Path to 100 could catapult Illinois past MN. But numerous Midwestern states have BIG solar projects on the books. A Midwest boom is coming! PV magazine found 44 GW of large solar projects in the queues of the three grid operators that divide up the region: PJM Interconnection, MISO and SPP. Furthermore, at last count 200 MW of community solar projects .

Renewable energy operators face enormous challenges to remain profitable in an increasingly competitive market. Facing tightening margins, operators are looking to extract maximum value by leveraging the flood of data collected from their renewable assets. As grid changes lead to increasing curtailment, forecasting becomes more challenging. And as the global supply chain is constrained, unforeseen equipment failures can lead to a costly and lengthy downtime. Operators leveraging AI have seen an increased performance, reduced costs, and optimal efficiencies.

The pressure on owners and operators of large PV projects to enhance the output and to reduce the cost of operations and maintenance has never been greater. Our first of three free webinars with global weather measurement and resource assessment provider Vaisala will give you practical ideas for improving asset management of existing plants, including opportunities to learn from best practices in solar asset management and discuss with experts how to provide smarter maintenance.