Catastrophic risk consultant VDE Americas today launched his VDE Hail Risk Atlas. Designed to predict the economic risk of solar assets as a result of hail loss, VDE’s package of hail risk -in -lighting products and services for solar developers, insurers and investors makes the way free for more defensible, financial and insurable projects. The VDE Hail Risk Atlas is available for use on the Esri ArcGIS platform.
Utility scale solar facilities are critical sources of domestic electricity generation in the United States, with some on the path of serious hailstorms. VDE created HagelRisico-Atlas that uses its own test data and on-site forensics to model the hail reputation of the wide range of solar modules of today and the effect of the Kantelhoek mounting system. Due to advanced computer modeling in combination with land-based radar and observation data, Hail Risk Atlas produces a wide range of hail risk cards and intelligence for use in assessing the risk of hail loss in the Continental United States.
“Despite the growing demand for large implementations of the infrastructure of solar energy generation, it is clear that the hail risk for these assets with a large area is often unknown,” said Jon Previtali, VP of digital services, “said Jon Previtali, VP From digital services at VDE Americas can quickly identify the risk level that is related to hail events, equipment selection, insurance coverage and, above all, effective HagelaFweerprotocols protocols. “
VDE’s Hail Risk Atlas consists of its own information that is important and financial risk retrics mapping of regions with low risk to the most dangerous ‘known zones’. In addition, Hail Risk Atlas includes:
- Return intervals Tickets: predicts the chance of hail showers on a range of maximum hailstone sizes. Return intervals support all commercial sectors that are concerned about the hail risk, not only on solar energy.
- Probably maximum loss (PML) and average annual loss (eel) estimates: informs the selection of equipment and coverage of the measuring insurance. This level of intelligence ensures that a hail risk for new and operational solar projects, as well as other assets, is well understood and assets are protected to meet increasingly strict requirements for investments and insurance policies.
“The solar energy -infrastructure of North America is dramatically insufficiently prepared for catastrophic events such as Hagel. Our goal with the introduction of the hail risk atlas, as part of our series of hail risk -inlaying solutions, is to solve this problem, so that assets remain operational for solar energy and wear our decades in the future, “said John Sedgwick , President of Vde America. “We believe that this level of mapping again, a huge step forward in how we can adapt and reduce extreme weather losses and the energy industry gives a new tool in its asset protection arsenal.”
For more than a decade, VDE Americas, a complete subsidiary of the European technology organization VDE Group, has provided technical consultancy and risk-limiting services for solar energy and energy storage projects. In addition to its hail risk atlas, VDE Hail Risk Intelligence Solutions includes an independent advisory practice that offers critical and timely hail information and technical due diligence in the field of planning and assets protection strategies.
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