Topic: Strategies for Company Value Creation  Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services  Guest: David Vence, Partner, Antin Infrastructure Partners  Delivering clean electrons and molecules in the race to decarbonize wields immense pressure.  Opportunity demands are felt by all companies in the supply chain including those in funding roles. Financial market leaders must identify the right investments and then boost value. In this episode of Power Players by Origis®, David Vence, a partner with Antin Infrastructure Partners, joins Michael Eyman of Origis S ..read more

Topic: How AI and Data Science is Shaping Solar O&M Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: David Kenny, Co-Founder and COO of Omnidian The solar operations and maintenance space is ripe for technological advancement.  Moving past drones and satellite captured performance information, the industry is adapting a host of applications to ensure the nation’s clean energy assets perform as expected despite unpredictable climates and within more complex policy structures.  In Episode 11 of Power Players by Origis, host Michael Eyman discusses ..read more

Topic: Addressing Solar Underperformance: RE+ 2022 Special Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Sarath Srinivasan, Vice President, Head of Product at kWh Analytics As the solar industry matures, the tools to measure solar performance modeling against real results have sharpened. Analytical tools and comparative studies now give us a clearer lens on asset performance. In episode 10 of Power Players by Origis, Sarath Srinivasan, Vice President, Head of Product for kWh Analytics, joins Michael Eyman of Origis Services to discuss solar underperfor ..read more

Topic: What the Hail? Mitigating Hail Damage on Large Scale Solar Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Kevin Christy, Head of Innovation & Operational Excellence–Americas, Lightsource bp In October 2021, solar industry veteran Kevin Christy put out a challenge for the industry to increase collaboration in solar hail damage mitigation: “It’s become increasingly clear that extreme weather, such as severe hailstorms, has the potential to drag down both clean energy generation at solar farms and stakeholder returns.”  In this segment, Power Players by Origis ..read more

Topic: The True Cost of Solar O&M—Is Increasing – Episode 8 of Power Players by Origis Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Leila Garcia da Fonseca, Principal Analyst at Wood Mackenzie The clean energy industry finds itself once again in a curious position: needing to build and maintain rapidly expanding solar capacity while also reacting to a potential economic recession, significant inflation in the costs of goods and services, and global supply chain issues. Where is O&M pricing heading in reaction to all this, and what technology trends may improve th ..read more

Topic: Mission Clean Energy: Transitioning Military Talent into the Solar Workforce – Episode 7 of Power Players by Origis® Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Rear Admiral Ted LeClair, Cofounder of 994 Group The transition race to clean energy is on. With this marathon is an urgent call to train and hire unprecedented numbers of new recruits. At the same time, thousands of military personnel transition to the private sector every year. How can companies in the industry do a better job of successfully recruiting veterans and reservists into the many needed IT, c ..read more

Topic: Start at the End: Building for the Solar Circular Economy Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Amanda Bybee, CEO, Amicus O&M Cooperative Decommissioned solar photovoltaic (PV) panels could add up to 1 million tons of waste in the U.S. by 2030 (GreenBiz). Turning circularity challenges into opportunities sits, to a great degree, in the hands of solar O&M firms who will be charged with recycling large volumes of end-of-life modules. Amanda Bybee, CEO of Amicus O&M Cooperative and volunteer leader at SolarRecycle.org, sits in a unique position at ..read more

Topic: The Solar Software Challenge: Supporting a Carbon-Free Grid Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Steve Hanawalt, EVP and Co-Founder, Power Factors The Solar Software Challenge: Supporting a Carbon-Free Grid - Episode 5 of Power Players by Origis® “End-to-end digital platforms are yet to become a reality,”said analyst Daniel Liu in the recent Wood Mackenzie webinar Global O&M Trends & Impacts on Solar Operating Fleets. “Few operators are willing to take the performance of their solar portfolios to the next level.” Does such a soup-to-nuts solar O&am ..read more

Topic: Financing the Future of Renewables Renewable energy investors and asset owners are navigating a swiftly changing landscape of system evolution (solar and BESS facilities).  Financing and revenue models aligned with these systems are also advancing. In episode #4 of Power Players by Origis, Origis Services Managing Director Michael Eyman talks with one of the industry’s most knowledgeable investors, Benoit Allehaut of KKR, to get a bird’s eye view of the emerging strategies to fund clean energy infrastructure, new storage-based revenue streams, and insights into how operators and as ..read more

Addressing Solar Asset Underperformance: True Cost of Solar O&M Series Moderator: Michael Eyman, Managing Director, Origis Services Guest: Richard Matsui, Founder & CEO, kWh Analytics Addressing Solar Asset Underperformance: True Cost of Solar O&M Series - Episode 3 of Power Players by Origis® kWh Analytics CEO Richard Matsui joins Origis Services Managing Director Michael Eyman to discuss “Addressing Solar Asset Underperformance: True Cost of Solar O&M Series.” What is causing an industry-wide disconnect between financial projections and performance? What can solar owners do t ..read more