Safeguard your solar operations against hail risks

Weather & Environment

Wind and Solar Energy

Nov 21, 2024

4:00 PM Paris CET

New hail nowcasting research plus enhanced alerting tools to protect your solar assets

Over the past five years, hail damage has accounted for more than 50% of total insured project losses in the solar industry. Extreme weather events like storms and hail are becoming more frequent with climate change, creating a new reality that threatens solar power plants.

Hail can break solar panels, which are costly to fix or replace, while storms and wind gusts can loosen or damage panels and their support structures. These weather events can cause system downtime, decreased energy production, and higher maintenance costs. Effective weather monitoring and alerts can help reduce these risks and allow operators to protect their solar assets from severe weather threats.

What will we cover?

EXPERT SPEAKERS: Insights from VDE Americas about the growing issue of hail damage in large-scale solar projects, highlighting insurance challenges, innovative testing methods, and strategies like stow protocols to mitigate risks.
CASE STUDIES: With a focus on hail events that cause significant damage, see how Vaisala’s latest research into hail nowcasting can provide crucial advance notice of imminent hail threats.
DEMOS: See how solar operators can implement alerting solutions for hail and other severe weather threats with Vaisala’s Xweather Insight platform and the Xweather API.

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Featured speakers:

Hans Loewenheath

Product Manager, Vaisala Xweather

Hans works as Product Manager in Vaisala Xweather with responsibility over Vaisala Xweather Protect platform. Hans joined Vaisala in 2020 to focus on lightning solutions. He is passionate about discovering customer value and helping organizations improve their safety and efficiency. Prior to joining Vaisala, he worked for seven years in sales, product management, and product marketing for industrial instrumentation and automation solutions.

Seth Miller

Data Core Services Lead, Vaisala Xweather

Seth is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience (starting as a young intern!) in the weather industry with AerisWeather, watching the company grow and transition into Xweather after its merger with Vaisala. His journey from developer to team lead has given him the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and experts in the GIS and weather spaces. Seth and his team build and maintain Xweather's data importing, weather API, raster maps, and MapsGL server products.

Jon Previtali

Senior Principal Engineer, VDE Americas

Jon Previtali has worked with renewable energy and Internet technologies for over twenty years. As a senior principal engineer for VDE Americas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of one of Europe’s largest technology organizations, Previtali provides critical engineering and commercial advisory services to ensure climate-tech projects and essential enabling technologies are bankable and insurable. Prior to joining VDE Americas, during a nearly decade-long tenure at Wells Fargo, Previtali established the bank’s technical due diligence practice for tax-equity investments in the U.S. renewable energy sector. He was instrumental in scaling the Wells Fargo platform that in 2021 had deployed over $10 billion in support of 12% of the nation’s wind and solar capacity. Widely regarded as a trusted subject matter expert, Previtali has helped promote and standardize many of the technical due diligence and risk mitigation strategies banks use to safeguard solar and energy storage project performance. Jon holds engineering degrees from Stanford University and the University of Colorado, Boulder.