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Operations and maintenance (O&M) is mostly about keeping the status quo of a solar plant. Fix issues. Prevent failures. Hit benchmarks. But in a tech-driven industry, is maintaining the status quo of a decades-old legacy site the best strategy? Many plant owners and operators are facing this question as their inverters (some from defunct manufacturers) age out of warranties and start breaking down. But there’s also ampleevidence of wide-spread underperformance on newer sites caused by prematurely degraded PV panels and a host of other issues (like inverters just not living up to their spec sheet – we have a free webinar on this coming in April, presented by PVEL).
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A fast-growing U.S. maker of hydrogen fuel cells has signed a deal to produce green hydrogen by using hydroelectricity from Brookfield Renewable Partners LP’s Holtwood power plant in Pennsylvania, as the industry touts the dawn of an energy revolution.
Plug Power Inc. , based in upper New York State, has ambitious plans over the next eight years to build and install electrolyzers, which generate green hydrogen by using renewable electricity. Through a process known as water electrolysis, hydrogen is captured as fuel after being split from oxygen.
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There’s rarely an investment opportunity that’s simultaneously good for your personal wealth and the wellbeing of all mankind. Clean energy certainly fits that bill. Over the next decade, governments across the world intend on spending trillions of dollars on making our energy sources more renewable. That presents the perfect opportunity for investors to cash in and make a difference.
With that in mind, here are my top two clean energy picks for the decade ahead.
Clean energy stock #1
Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. (TSX:BEP.UN)(NYSE:BEP) is my top clean energy pick. The asset manager’s various subsidiaries are always at the top of their game. It doesn’t hurt that Brookfield also happens to have the deepest pocket in the Canadian financial sector.