Storm season has the solar industry looking to protect assets from costly hail damage
The destructive potential of hail on solar arrays has only been fully realized in the last two years. In this series, pv magazine talks with experts in storm modeling, risk insurance, and damage mitigation to learn how solar arrays can survive nature’s wrath.
Insurance for renewable energy projects adapts to more frequent and destructive disasters
As much as 70% of losses linked to solar energy systems in the past decade have occurred since 2017. The insurance industry is no longer “naive” to the risk.
174 Power Global breaks ground on 178 MW-AC project in West Texas
The massive project is one of several that is selling electricity to Austin Energy under 450 MW of long-term power contracts signed in 2015.
