Events.
2026
Jon Previtali presents at the inaugural Solar Manufacturing USA conference at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center in Austin. Produced by pv magazine and Finlay Colville, it is the first U.S. event focused solely on domestic PV manufacturing — production volumes, factory build-out, cell technology, and quality across the polysilicon-to-module chain.
Jon Previtali joins Array Technologies’ two-day insurance forum in Boston, bringing asset owners, insurers, and advisors together on severe-weather strategy for solar — hail performance, smart stowing, full-site stow verification, wind stability, and turning mitigation into premium and deductible credits. Invite-only; contact info@askned.ai for more.
NED co-founder and Fractional CTO Nolan Erck speaks at the Bellagio in Las Vegas on how modern browser capabilities — native APIs, advanced CSS, custom HTML elements, and client-side testing — can streamline the frontend stack. The throughline: less dependency management, more of what browsers already do.
Nolan Erck’s second session works through the Model-View-Controller pattern in ColdFusion without relying on any framework — separating generic OO concepts from framework-specific terms and building a sample app both with and without a framework. Aimed at developers moving from procedural to object-oriented code; no prior OOP or MVC experience required.
Jon Previtali attends the fifth edition of PV ModuleTech USA in Napa, where stakeholders map U.S. module supply through 2027 and beyond. Focus areas: module quality and reliability, supply-chain traceability and FEOC compliance, trade policy, and — new this year — co-locating solar with storage.
Jon Previtali presents to Sandia National Laboratories’ Solar Industry Advisory Board on applying AI to solar generation — deployment architectures for regulated environments, NERC CIP-compliant data handling, and a case study where AI-assisted analysis of operating reports traces a widening summer performance dip to a defective first-generation 1000 VDC string fuse class.
Jon Previtali presents on technical due diligence as the foundation of solar asset management — walking through the pre-commitment DD checklist (agreements, equipment, energy production, design, and site review) and how early diligence carries through the project lifecycle.
Jon Previtali takes part in Nextpower’s NX Solar Insurer Forum, bringing asset owners, insurers, and advisors together on engineering nat-cat risk out of solar plants. Highlights: the “Connected Power Plant” vision; 2025 Texas hail results (180+ stows, ~1.1M modules protected, zero claims); fire-detection robotics; and a telematics partnership letting owners share stow data with insurers. Representing VDE Americas on the risk-modeling panel.
Jon Previtali presents on due diligence for PV and BESS projects at Solarplaza’s Emerging Leaders Program — a training day for newcomers to solar and storage asset management, held ahead of the main Summit.
2025
Jon Previtali takes the stage in San Diego to discuss best practices for energy storage safety, joined by Mike Nicholas of The Hiller Companies, Wes Fuller and Craig Horne of Energy Vault, and Kyle Smith of McCarthy Building Companies.
Empirical validation of hail stow effectiveness in preventing catastrophic solar project losses, drawing on forensic analysis of real-world hail events. Representing VDE Americas.
Jon Previtali presents VDE Americas’ forensic analysis of the Fort Bend County, Texas hailstorms alongside Array Technologies, covering how their DuraTrack and SmarTrack systems perform during the back-to-back 500-year hail events and best practices for hail stow protocol implementation.
Jon Previtali appears as a listed speaker at North America’s leading solar asset management conference, alongside Nextracker’s Jyoti Jain and other industry leaders. Jon Previtali has appeared at SAMNA across multiple years.
Jon Previtali speaks on a GameChange Solar-sponsored panel at the Southern Hemisphere’s largest clean energy event, covering hail risk assessment and mitigation for the Australian solar market. The appearance coincides with VDE Americas’ formal international expansion of its Hail Risk Intelligence services.
Jon Previtali joins CPP Wind Engineering and GameChange Solar’s Chief Engineer Scott Van Pelt to discuss advanced hail and wind risk assessment for solar projects in Australia and the antipodean region, hosted by pv magazine.
Jon Previtali speaks on hail risk in the European solar market at pv magazine’s virtual conference, identifying Italy, the Balkan coast, and eastern Spain as emerging hail risk hotspots and recommending beyond-IEC testing standards for European project developers and insurers.
2024
Session chair for a major plenary session, plus co-presenter with Peter Bostock and Kyle Elser on hail risk assessment methodology. Representing VDE Americas.
Jon Previtali joins fellow panelists to discuss how technical due diligence intersects with tax equity structuring — covering documentation standards, risk identification, and the technical conditions that drive or derail tax equity commitments.
Jon Previtali participates in a panel focused on managing physical risks for renewable energy assets in the post-IRA tax credit landscape. The discussion covers the increasing frequency and severity of hail events in the southern U.S., technical mitigation strategies including “stow early and stow often” protocols for solar trackers, and the impact of extreme weather data on project insurance and financing.
Jon Previtali joins Trinasolar and Kiwa PVEL to explore the technical, insurance, and bankability benefits of hail- and wind-resistant module designs across utility-scale, C&I, community solar, and residential markets.
2023
Jon Previtali joins speakers from DNV, Natural Power, Avangrid Renewables, and TMEIC for the closing panel of ACP’s Resource & Technology Conference, moderated by DNV’s Daran Rife. The session examines the financial and operational implications of more frequent and severe weather events for renewable energy assets. Representing VDE Americas.
2021
Co-chair with Simran Raju of DNV·GL. The session covers post-storm forensic EL analysis, hail risk modeling, and reinsurer perspectives on CAT risk in solar. Representing Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo REEF’s approach to module-level technical diligence, quality assurance requirements, and bankability standards for tax equity investments.
Representing Wells Fargo REEF alongside executives from Ameresco, Energy Impact Partners, Nexamp, and other leading renewable energy finance organizations.
2018–2020
Jon Previtali and Tom Tansy of the SunSpec Alliance join host Todd Alexander to discuss the DOE-backed Orange Button initiative — a data standard designed to reduce transaction costs and improve efficiency in solar project finance. Representing Wells Fargo.
Coverage of Jon Previtali’s panel remarks at the Solarplaza Summit Asset Management North America on bank underwriting of technical performance risk, data transparency, and the role of insurers as natural owners of solar production risk.
2015
The lender and investor perspective on PV module certification and the IECRE system, alongside Hartford Steam Boiler and VDE’s Peter Bostock. Representing Wells Fargo.
2013
Intersolar North America — Achieving High Penetration PV on Rooftops through Smart Grid Integration
How distributed PV generation can be scaled on commercial and residential rooftops through smart grid integration strategies. Representing Black & Veatch.
Solar Power-Gen Conference — Diagnosing Performance Issues within Your Solar PV Plant
Practical methodology for diagnosing and resolving underperformance in operating solar PV plants, drawing on independent engineering experience across utility-scale and distributed generation portfolios. Representing Black & Veatch.
2012
Intersolar North America — Modeling the Effects of Snow & Ice on PV
Modeling approaches and performance impacts of snow and ice accumulation on solar energy production, with implications for energy yield assessments and project risk. Representing Black & Veatch.
Solar Power-Gen Conference — Assessing the Risks in Solar Project Development: Effect of Snow on Solar Energy
Financial and technical risk assessment for solar projects in snow-affected regions, covering production loss modeling and mitigation strategies. Representing Black & Veatch.
2011
U.S. Solar Market Insight Conference (Greentech Media) — Defining and Achieving Bankability in the U.S. Market: Top Ten Project Level Considerations
A practitioner’s framework for the ten most critical project-level factors that determine whether a solar project achieves bankability in the U.S. market. Representing Black & Veatch.