The Missing Megawatts with Chris "Maddog" Madsen

I'm a business guy learning the technical side of utility-scale solar in public, one topic at a time, and turning what I learn into plain-language videos for the people who approve budgets, manage assets, develop projects and sign off on a P50.

Season 1, Dirtier Than It Looks, is about solar soiling loss: what a point of soiling is worth, why Isc and Pmax can disagree, how a soiling ratio goes wrong, every way I know of to measure it, what a wash buys back, and the soiling measurement spec I'd write. Season 2 is irradiance.

Day job: I work at Campbell Scientific, which makes weather stations and sensors for solar plants. When a video gets to sensors, I say so.

New topics start on LinkedIn, where I post what I'm learning every week and the comments set me straight. The videos are where I land.