Customer Stories
With half of their workforce stationed outside of the U.S., Hodson Energy grappled with collaboration across various time zones, necessitating early morning and late evening calls to facilitate coordination. Moreover, internal silos within the company posed additional challenges, hindering collaboration and information sharing, ultimately impeding fast execution.
In the day-to-day, the team faced the routine task of assessing and qualifying nearly seven million acres of land to identify project opportunities, a resource-intensive endeavor for the team. Reliance on external consultants for initial project analysis is sometimes required, which adds to project costs and significantly hampers the speed in evaluating projects.
Furthermore, to achieve the most efficient design, the Hodson Energy team spends a significant amount of resources designing multiple design iterations. These iterations involved adjusting various factors such as equipment selection, infrastructure layout, grid connection, electrical configuration and other pertinent elements to find the optimal PV design.
After conducting a thorough evaluation of various data and analytics solution providers to assist in power siting and designing workflows, Hodson Energy opted for Enverus P&R PRISM® Developer Suite and RatedPower solutions. The P&R PRISM Developer Suite offered graphical views and workbook features that could be shared across the organization. The workbooks were set up by the Enverus team and tailored to align with Hodson Energy’s solar planning and qualification workflow and provided both a granular view for each workstream and high-level dashboards, facilitating a quick and comprehensive understanding across the organization.
Alongside its graphical views and workbook features, the P&R PRISM Developer Suite provided comprehensive land analytics and parcel datasets. These resources proved instrumental for Hodson Energy in qualifying their extensive land holdings, allowing them to pinpoint areas of focus and prioritize prime acreage for development. By leveraging these tools, the team could streamline their land assessment process, minimizing time spent and the need or scope for expensive external consulting services.
Utilizing RatedPower, the Hodson team automated their design iterations, significantly reducing design time and resources. Within minutes, the team could generate PV design layout and equipment configurations given a list of criteria and location. The software’s flexibility allowed for quick adjustments and modifications, empowering the team to explore various design options. Additionally, RatedPower facilitated the creation of bill of materials and CAD drawings, simplifying communication with external vendors.
PRISM and RatedPower has enabled Hodson Energy to streamline their approach to project analysis, enhancing efficiency, speed and confidence in qualifying projects. With PRISM, senior leadership gained instant access to an integrated view of project dimensions and their impact on viability, empowering stakeholders across different workstreams to make collaborative decisions. This resulted in increased confidence and a comprehensive perspective on project analysis.
Moreover, PRISM’s custom filter capabilities on land has enabled Hodson Energy to prioritize the project opportunities that are the most promising, saving significant time and resources previously spent on less ideal projects. Tasks once outsourced to external consultants are now efficiently managed in-house, further enhancing operational efficiency and speed.
RatedPower has enabled the Hodson Energy team to automate their PV design and engineering documentation process, leading to a time savings of 15-20% and increased design iteration capacity for refining PV layouts. Within minutes, a PV layout can be generated where in the past it may have taken weeks to create.
Ultimately, the combined PRISM and RatedPower solution has helped Hodson Energy streamline project siting workflows, fostering organizational clarity and efficiency, and ultimately driving project success.
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