Featured in Empowered with PV – 12-2017

A controlled approach

Portfolio management: Managing large and often diverse solar PV portfolios becomes far easier and more cost effective when both flexibility and a centralized point of control are available. Joe Grimes, VP of PV monitoring and asset management firm Draker/BlueNRGY, explains how portfolio growth and asset acquisitions create new challenges that require fresh solutions.

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pv magazine

22 Dec 2017

The top 10 O&M providers in the U.S. manage more than 50% of the nation’s installed base of solar at a time when portfolio consolidation among developers is also on the rise.

The trend towards portfolio consolidation is accelerating in the U.S. solar industry, whittling down the number of firms managing solar assets. Larger portfolios of solar PV plants create market efficiencies, but, depending on their geographical distribution, they may also create new operational challenges. Financially combining diverse assets means that outlier projects far below projected energy …

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