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4 Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Solar Power Daily News SOLAR ENGINEERING — PV LESSONS LEARNED & IMPROVED OPPORTUNITIES By Steve Schwerd, Partner, VP of Facilities and Energy Engineering, KMB Design Group In the drive towards achieving grid parity for solar power, soft costs will continue to trend downward, but often they can add value and yield reduced costs and improved performance. Typically, soft costs such as engineering can equate to pennies per Watt and a very small percentage of construction. Subsequently, a design that fails to be efficient, or a process that does not incorporate engineering input at the onset or causes system design change orders can negatively impact the bottom line. With over 250 solar projects to our credit, KMB provides engineering input early in the process to avoid pitfalls and boost value opportunities. For example, we frequently brainstorm ideas to enhance system and material options, installation techniques, local utility constraints, etc., that clients may overlook. The need for comprehensive services has grown significantly in just five years. Full service solar engineering and project management services now include PV design, electrical, structural, civil and environmental, permitting, and applications. Projects range from very small (10KW) to large (20MW) including rooftop, carport, ground-mount, and post-up systems. This work involves distributed generation and utility projects, and a variety of facility types including municipal, educational, office buildings, retail, industrial, mission critical and more. As a result, we offer best practices and lessons learned with solar companies that may have limited variations in their target Continued on Page 19 Air Liquide is the world leader in gases for industry, health and environment, and is present in 80 countries with close to 50,000 employees. Air Liquide innovates for the sake of progress while striving to ally dynamic growth, consistent performances and responsibility over the long term. Air Liquide provides gas and chem- ical's turnkey solutions to the photovoltaic industry, not only to the entire crystalline silicon value chain such as polysilicon, ingot, and solar cell, but also to the thin film manufacturers from silicon, CdTe to CIGS. Air Liquide offers nitrogen (N2), hydrogen (H2), argon (Ar), mono-silane (SiH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen selenide (H2Se), mono-germane (GeH4) and other specialty gases, Lee M. Oser CEO and Editor-in-Chief Lyle Sapp Senior Associate Publisher Director of Sales Kate Seymour Senior Associate Publisher Kim Forrester Jeff Rosano Associate Publishers Lorrie Baumann Editorial Director Hayden Neeley Senior Associate Editor Kristina Harris Associate Editor Hannah Hollins Assitant Editor AIR LIQUIDE STAYS CUTTING EDGE IN THE PHOTOVOLTAIC INDUSTRY By Olivier Blachier, Vice President of WBL-EL Markets Group, Air Liquide AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION NOT AFFILIATED WITH INTERSOLAR Yasmine Brown Graphic Designer ALTAY™ advanced and innovative materials such as diethylzinc (DeZn), phosphoryl chloride (POCl3), boron bromide (BBr3) or Sunsonix's chemical additives, equipment and installation (E&I) and total gas and chemical management (TGCM). Air Liquide produces or purifies most of the products. Dedicated to Solar PV, Air Liquide Continued on Page 19 Ruth Haltiwanger Sam Micheletti Customer Service Managers Dave Chavez Account Manager Enrico Cecchi European Sales Solar Power Daily News, is published by Oser Communications Group ©2013. All rights reserved. Executive and editorial offices at: 1877 N. Kolb Road, Tucson, AZ 85715 520.721.1300/Fax: 520.721.6300 www.oser.com European offices located at Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini, 11, 50125 Florence, Italy.