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Prepared for Piotr V. | Delivered July 28, 2020
Utility-Scale Solar Farms- Pain Points
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Goals
To provide the biggest pain points for utility-scale solar farm developers in the U.S. as of July 2020. The research will help determine whether a small business addressing the pain points is feasible.
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Early Findings
Utility-scale solar facilities are of different sizes and can range from the production of
1 megawatt to over 300
megawatts of power.
When defined by function, they generate solar power and feed it into the grid,
supplying utilities with energy
.
The difference between it and
Distributed Generation solar energy
is that the project's size is larger and the generated electricity is not sold to end-use consumers but to wholesale utility buyers.
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SIEA), here are
over 37,000 megawatts
of utility-scale solar projects in operation, with another
112,000 MW
being in the development stage.
4.3 million households can be powered by the
26,000 megawatts
of utility-scale solar power projects that are being developed in the country.
Some pain points of utility-scale solar farms, projects, or facilities in the U.S. are:
Holistic integration
of the projects into the surroundings.
Inconsistent labor
between utility-scale solar projects.
Varying
equipment vendors.
Inaccurate evaluation
of the plants' performance.
Summary of Early Findings
Our first hour of research was spent scanning for information surrounding utility-scale solar farm developments to determine whether the information is available, which it is.
We have provided background information on utility-scale farm developments and some pain points that they face. However, it is definite that further research will reveal more pain points with support statistics and real-life examples.
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