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Challenges of Repowering Solar + Storage Projects

Repowering legacy solar systems can be complex but manageable with the right strategy and engineering partner. Join Mike Gotthardt, our Power Engineering Project Manager, as he dives into the constructability challenges stakeholders face when repowering solar + storage projects.

 

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Constructability, which is one of Pure Power's core values. One of my old engineering mentors said any engineer can design new construction, meaning that it's more of a challenge to design renovation, repair or retrofit because you have to take what's already there. You have to decide what's good and what's not good, and you have to install new equipment that fits with the existing equipment.

So you have to perform a detailed survey of all of the electrical power infrastructure. You have to know what's there, especially in terms of conduits, the quantity and the trade sizes. If you're going to reuse them to pull cable through cable tray dimensions, the supports of the cable tray, the width of the cable tray. Evaluation of existing railways is very important.

Evaluation of the existing pad, the existing racking. Making sure that the clearance requirements for new equipment will work with the existing space that's available to you. So those are some of the constructive building challenges that we think about when we go out to site.