kWh Analytics is set to continue phase two work on a $2M award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Increasing Affordability, Reliability and Manufacturability of PV Cells, Modules and Systems award.
The initiative, under the department’s Solar Energy Technologies Office, is aimed at extending the lifespan of PV systems.
This award enables the continuation of research the company began in 2022 into building a program for insurers to incent solar asset owners for reliability measures. Over the past 24 months, kWh Analytics has been developing ways to identify points of solar PV equipment failure and understand the resolution outcomes that bring sites back online quickly and efficiently with the end goal of creating a “safe driver discount” for reliable assets.
To achieve this, the company says it used natural language processing of O&M service logs to learn what makes solar assets reliable. These field insights inform upstream stakeholder decisions, such as O&M preventative maintenance and spare parts strategies, thus developing a feedback loop.
“As an insurance stakeholder, we are continuously collecting and analyzing data, and looking for opportunities to incentivize reliable and resilient behavior,” says Jason Kaminsky, CEO of kWh Analytics.
“We are grateful to the Department of Energy for enabling us to share important findings that will impact how the industry designs and operates solar PV facilities and reward those reliability measures, as we collectively work to build a reliable clean energy future.”
As kWh Analytics enters the second phase of the DOE project, the company will explore ways in which field data can inform insurers’ decisions to incent asset owners for putting reliability measures into practice.
The company plans to publish the results of its research project next year.
The decision to further fund kWh Analytics’ research in this area is the latest milestone in the company’s strong and enduring relationship with the DOE. Most recently, kWh Analytics was awarded $2.4 million by the DOE’s Materials, Operation, and Recycling of Photovoltaics Funding Program in September.
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DOE Gives kWh Analytics Permission to Continue PV Reliability Research
The United States seems set on propelling itself backwards.
Maybe, as they say, “Hell has a special place reserved in it” for people like Thom Tillis, Republican Senator from North Carolina, who enabled Trump to rape and destroy the United States.
That was until it became clear to Tillis that he could jump ship, write a scathing book about the president, get all over mainstream news promoting it, and go on to enjoy another chapter of political success.
That we Americans are so stupid that we accept this blatant hypocrisy and criminality is sad proof that we’re not the people we were 20 years ago. Maybe what many people are saying are correct: we deserved what we got.
Here’s a short video from Elle Cordova that reminds us that science is something of a rarity in human history.
The great tyrants of history have done their best to cause the people they ruled to reject science, simply to ensure the masses are ignorant, terrified, superstitious, and thus easily controlled.
The current political administration is particularly engrossed in the rejection of science. I wonder why.
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