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- 115Eliminating Site Visits to Increase Your ProfitabilityThe need for eliminating expensive and time-consuming site visits, which can amount to hundreds of dollars per visit (NREL Installed Cost Benchmarks and Deployment Barriers for Residential Solar Photo... Read more...
- 93Standardizing PV System Production Estimation to Deliver Unprecedented AccuracyHuman involvement in PV system production estimates can be biased and inaccurate, leading to change orders and the potential loss of frustrated customers. Automated measurements remove the possibility... Read more...
- 89How aerial imagery is changing workflowsThis presentation will go over how aerial imagery is making it easier to win solar business. We'll discuss things like how you can prospect an entire region for solar leads in a few hours, measure vir... Read more...
- 60Using Independent Verification to Improve Portfolio PerformanceIn today’s increasingly complicated solar industry, independent verification is crucial to securing financing, but must be low-cost to maintain profitability and efficiency. Remote shading analysis ca... Read more...
- 29Harness the Tip of the Spear: Lessons from a decade of community solar legislationHow do you build and leverage a grassroots coalition to score big legislative wins without deep pockets? Learn how a small, unfunded coalition of stakeholders led by SunShare’s very own David stood up... Read more...
- 21Benefiting From Opportunity Zone Capital in SolarUsing Opportunity Zone tax-advantaged capital in a solar, solar + storage and/or storage project can meaningfully improve all stakeholders economics (~250 basis points of IRR). While working side-by-s... Read more...
- 11Finally Time to Market Residential Solar to Women?The first marketing solar to women research was introduced to the industry in 2013. Titled, “Shining a Solar Marketing Light on Women,” the survey was cited in the National Solar Jobs Census 2013 publ... Read more...
- 9Breaking the C&I Financing ChallengesProjects of greater size than 20kW and less than 5MW with non-rated off-takers have historically suffered a desert of financing options. This is a part of the market which has suffered slow growth co... Read more...
- 9Keeping Today's Batteries from Becoming Tomorrow's Toxic WasteIt's a little known fact that lead-acid batteries are one of the most fully recycled products on Earth - and an even lesser-known fact that disposal and recycling infrastructure for lithium-ion batter... Read more...
- 7Providing Resilience Solutions in the Wake of Natural DisastersWe’re already beginning to see the impacts of climate change in the form of increasingly frequent and severe storms, fires, and other events that interrupt electrical service for large numbers of peop... Read more...
- 7Valuing Energy StorageEnergy storage is today’s hot topic in renewables. Costs are dropping exponentially! States are creating robust and generous regulatory environments to support battery development! But you look around... Read more...
- 6How Microgrids Assist with Public Safety: Wildfires, Power Outages and Other ChallengesThe grid challenges associated with storms, wildfires and other disasters, especially in California, are significant. To help prevent power lines from sparking wildfires in areas where fires frequentl... Read more...
- 6Community Choice AggregationAs the energy landscape moves away from top-down, centralized control by utilities to localized generation and distribution, who will manage the energy transactions? The new business model of Communit... Read more...
- 5"Let's level up"Current eco-messaging, including about renewables, suffers from woefully-superficial reporting. Our community still can't even get right the difference between "power" and "energy" (Ah ...aren't the s... Read more...
- 5Solar OrganizingSolar industry participants have very low rates of political participation - similarly to environmentally conscious citizens generally. Session would provide easy tools to turn solar workers into sola... Read more...
- 5Women In PowerPanel with women from a variety of areas in renewable energy - executives, entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, sales - discuss the job market for women in the growing solar industry.
- 3Achieving 100% Clean Energy2019 has seen explosive growth in the movement towards 100% clean and/or renewable energy in the United States, but committed and informed leadership is the key to achieving 100% clean energy. Which s... Read more...
- 3Fulfilling CA Solar Mandate with Smart Energy Tract Home ModelThe CA Solar Mandate (2019 Title 24, Part 6, Building Energy Efficiency Standards) opens up an unprecedented opportunity for solar contractors. Instead of solar only installations, how can contractors... Read more...
- 3Open SCADA Platforms - Why it's good for the industryThe objectives of this topic is to address the need for open SCADA platforms that enable owners, facility operators and O&M providers to support and maintain the SCADA system that is critical to t... Read more...
- 2Unleashing the Community Microgrid marketCalifornia wildfires and power shutoffs have renewed the interest in microgrids. Community Microgrids, in particular, deliver communities unparalleled economic, environmental, and resilience benefits ... Read more...
- 2Full Roof Replacement Options with SolarHow to effectively replace your roof with solar. Should you consider getting a full new roof? https://greencoast.org/replacing-roof-with-solar-panels/
- 2Solar (and batteries) and EV Infrastructure IntegrationRecent trends suggest downard pressure on the value of solar in well developed state markets that opens up the opportunity for energy storage. Integration with Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure... Read more...
- 2Solar+Storage Codes and StandardsTo better understand the current C&S environment for Solar+Storage implementation.
- 2Bifacial panels albedo surfaceEco-Friendly Cost-Effective Dirt/Vegetation Control, Dirt/Concrete/Asphalt Pavements replacement, and Bi-Facial Solar Panels Albedo Reflection Surface for Solar Ground Mount projects.
- 2Storage: Charging into the Future"You complete me," said the wind turbine to the electric thermal energy storage device. Grid-scale storage is finally happening. We look at the landscape now and in the near future, along with the tec... Read more...
- 2Career growth in a demanding industryWhether your fresh out of school or making a career change, it's important to identify where you can apply your current skills and what opportunities lie ahead to continue pushing the industry forward... Read more...
- 2Financing will make or break ongoing solar industry growthAs the costs associated with solar decreases, demand rises, the investment tax credit (ITC) step down looms, and cities and states across the country set ambitious renewable energy plans in motion, t... Read more...
- 2Speed vs Duration in storage PPAsStorage technology is designed to meet two very different time based goals. 1. How fast can the storage respond to the needs to the grid in terms of power, frequency and VARs and 2. How long, how many... Read more...
- 1The Role of Solar + Storage in EV Fleet ChargingAs many public transit authorities and commercial fleet operators look toward a zero-emissions future, the question of how to charge large fleets of medium-duty and heavy-duty EVs becomes increasingly... Read more...
- 1Embodied Carbon in Solar PVSolar energy is growing sharply as a way to reduce power related carbon emissions and meet corporate sustainability and carbon goals. Photovoltaic solar (PV) is the predominant solar technology. ... Read more...
- 1Mitigating price risk for solar PPA off-takersAs more solar is added to the grid, wholesale power prices during sunny hours will keep going down, creating price risk for solar PPA off-takers who contract to buy power at a fixed price for up to 15... Read more...
- 1Solar improves a homes valueHomebuyers want efficient, high performing homes and are willing to pay more for them. By relating this to the homeowner in the sales process they can understand solar not just in terms of energy savi... Read more...
- 1Is Your Data a Friend or Foe? Why Data Is Your Most Valuable Renewables AssetIt’s about time to start treating your data as an asset in your growing renewables portfolio. Are you employing machine learning to your advantage or is AI scalability tripping you up?
- 1NERC Compliance Standards - A practical look at how its applied to our industryThe NERC Standards continue to evolve and influence how PV facilities are designed, operated and maintained. These standards are now applicable beyond the operation of the plant and can heavily influe... Read more...
- 1Innovations in middle market C&I energy financingOut of the box thinking and unique structures being used and developed to break the middle market C&I energy financing barrier to unlock the growth in distributed solar, storage and micro grids.
- 1Off-Peak EV Charging StrategiesAs electric vehicles continue to enter the marketplace, it is important to proactively plan how to manage this new electric utility load. This presentation will provide strategies that utilities can u... Read more...
- 1Bulking Up: Adding Bulk Storage to the GridTo meet a 100% clean energy future will require diverse energy storage solutions that can dispatch over longer durations- hours, days, even seasonal. This session will look at CPUC and CAISO models to... Read more...
- 1Understanding the basics of photovoltaic / thermal (PVT) systemsUnderstanding the basics of photovoltaic / thermal (PVT) systems will specifically address the generation of electricity and the heating of water for use in residential & commercial swimming pool ... Read more...
- 1How We Define Resilience is ImportantYou can't design a resilient power system if you don't really know what "resilient" means. This is an innovative approach to integrate qualitative and quantitative aspects of resilience to make sure a... Read more...
- 120 Year Batteries: Tips for Practical Alignment of Solar and Storage LifetimesSolar projects with 20+ year projected lifetimes are increasingly being coupled with storage, and there is an expectation that the storage asset should last just as long. But what if it doesn't? Examp... Read more...
- 1Light and thermal management: the next frontier for solar panel efficiencyImproving the efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) cells remains a huge opportunity for the industry to reduce the cost of solar electricity. Spectral shaping technologies (i.e., changing the solar spectru... Read more...
- 1Experience from pilot project north of the 53rd parallel - DER installed behind the meterPart of Hydro-Quebec’s mission is to reduce greenhouse gases in the Northern remote communities currently using diesel generators to produce their electricity. In 2018, Hydro-Quebec launched a pilot p... Read more...
- 1An all electric countryA tropical 'right-sized island' nation is heading for an all electric future. Insolation level is 6 kWh/m2.day (6 sun hrs/day). This project encompasses renewable energy generation, energy storage, e... Read more...
- 1Agrivoltaics Systems for better IRR and to increase the land utilizationThis presentation will help to reduce the payback period using shade tolerant crop cultivation with PV farms. Larger scale vs smaller scale projects.
