The situation
Investment decisions on utility-scale photovoltaic plants required technical validation that investors and operators could trust: yield, risk, and techno-economic coherence.
The constraint
Data was uneven. Sites differed. A wrong yield assumption would not show up as a software bug; it would show up as capital misallocated for years.
What I decided
I treated validation as a product capability, not a consulting spreadsheet. Simulation boundaries, sensitivity cases, and what “acceptable risk” meant were named explicitly so the decision was auditable.
What shipped
Technical validation and yield simulations for plants in the 10–40 MW range, with techno-economic analysis attached to the engineering case.
What it produced
Investment cases with clearer risk assessment and optimized projected energy output scenarios, so decisions could be defended when assumptions were challenged.