“Awesome course! I will use the information I learned today going forward throughout my career.”
Business Developer, Engie Canada
October 9 - 10, 2025 Online :: Central Time
“Awesome course! I will use the information I learned today going forward throughout my career.”
Business Developer, Engie Canada“This course is a great way to introduce yourself to the ways the utility industry are incorporating solar power into their service territories and how the plants are designed on large scales.”
Sub-station Engineer, Sargent and Lundy“Having a basic understanding of solar and having an electrical power industry background, this course delivered the right amount of detail and really took my knowledge to the next level.”
Solar Power Operations & Maintenance Engineer, Southern Company“Provided an excellent amount of information and tools to evaluate and plan PV resources.”
Senior Systems Analyst, Entergy“My second EUCI event that I experienced deep technical training and in-depth content.”
CEO, True South Renewables Inc“This course expanded greatly on the basic knowledge I already had for the design process of solar fields.”
Assistant Project Manager, McCarthy Building Co“This course was a helpful tool to fill in some of the blanks in my knowledge of solar power plant design.”
Estimator, McCarthy Building Co“I thought the session was very good and on task to help me learn more about utility-grade solar.”
Senior Energy Conservation Specialist, Florida Public Utilities“Very informative. Well worth the two days of time spent. Years of experience taught in a few hours.”
Engineer II, Hawaiian Electric“This course hit all the key topics to provide an individual with a good foundation in solar plant design and development. Coming from the O&M world, I was happy to hear the speakers point out the key considerations you need to make in order to ensure your building or buying a plant that can stand the test of time and be able to perform as you expect it to. I’m looking forward to using what I’ve learned here to provide better feedback and informed suggestions to my company’s generation development team.”
Engineer, Southern CompanyThis course is designed to familiarize attendees with:
Attendees will benefit from a broad review of development and component evaluation considerations – coupled with energy production modeling techniques – that will provide course participants with the basics of cost-of-energy analysis. Solar industry practitioners will also review design and equipment procurement considerations to reduce risk for asset owners, along with how and when to incorporate storage into the project development planning process. And they will discuss how design decisions can impact overall plant economics, as well as operations and maintenance (O&M) costs.
Attendees at this course will:
This course is open to utilities, power and energy industry operating companies (see above), software vendors, consumer groups, and regulators only. Registrations that do not meet this criteria or that may be construed as a competitive conflict will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and may not qualify for attendance. Any determination as to the fulfillment of a registration to attend this program shall reside solely with EUCI. Questions re: the application of this restriction can be addressed to [email protected].
Please Note: This event is being conducted entirely online. All attendees will connect and attend from their computer, one connection per purchase. For details please see our FAQ
If you are unable to attend at the scheduled date and time, we make recordings available to all attendees for 7 days after the event
Your registration may be transferred to a member of your organization up to 24 hours in advance of the event. Cancellations must be received on or before September 05, 2025 in order to be refunded and will be subject to a US $195.00 processing fee per registrant. No refunds will be made after this date. Cancellations received after this date will create a credit of the tuition (less processing fee) good toward any other EUCI event. This credit will be good for six months from the cancellation date. In the event of non-attendance, all registration fees will be forfeited. In case of conference cancellation, EUCIs liability is limited to refund of the event registration fee only. For more information regarding administrative policies, such as complaints and refunds, please contact our offices at 303-770-8800
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Central Time
Online
This presentation will address the elements of an independent (owner’s) engineer’s role and the related concept of commissioning and how they should be executed:
Friday, October 10, 2025
Central Time
Online
This segment explores linkages between key decisions made during the initial design phase and their impact on life cycle operations and maintenance (O&M) costs to better inform “thinking with the end in mind.” Given the accelerating investment in solar PV by electric utilities — and their emphasis towards holistic costs over the life of the plant, as compared to maximizing return on upfront capital expenditures — this is an increasingly important aspect in optimizing solar power plant design. Yet, sound advice is not always followed. Therefore, the discussion will also consider the consequences on an operating basis of how to deal with plant condition and performance issues when the design and development team doesn’t follow O&M team guidance. And, it will examine how the O&M team can effectively communicate its preferences to the design and development team in a fashion that can may circumvent the internal minefields that sometimes bedevil inconvenient truths.
Torrey Graf is Vice President of Engineering at FastGrid LLC, which he joined in 2022. He has 12 years of electrical engineering experience across both traditional power and utility scale solar generation, as well as deep experience in large scale energy storage. In addition to building and leading multidisciplinary teams at Burns & McDonnell, Mr. Graf has served as engineering and project manager on more than 4GW of solar and 2GW of energy storage projects across the United States. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Arizona State University.
Vice President – Engineering
FastGrid LLC
PV Staff Electrical Engineer
Burns & McDonnell
Staff Civil Engineer
Burns & McDonnell
Energy Storage Applications – Power Global Practice
Burns & McDonnell
Lead Electrical Engineer
Burns & McDonnell
CEO & Co-Founder
QE Solar
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Participants must sign in/log in each day and be in attendance for the entirety of the course to be eligible for continuing education credit.
This program will use PowerPoint presentations, case studies and group discussions.
Upon successful completion of this event, program participants interested in receiving CPE credits will receive a certificate of completion.
Course CPE Credits: 15.5
There is no prerequisite for this Course.
Program field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: Group Internet Based
Advanced Preparation: None
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