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With the rapid growth in the deployment of solar, the industry has continued to see a rise in underperformance. Raptor Maps' analysis of more than 125GW has shown that equipment fault-related underperformance has increased by almost 180% since 2019, resulting in up to $4.6 billion of potential annual revenue loss for the industry in 2023. Our report details trends and drivers of such underperformance, derived from our industry-leading dataset.

Equipment-driven underperformance has resulted in losses of $82M for the 24.5GW analyzed in 2022 – scaled up to the entire solar industry, that translates to $2.5B in losses annually. Download the report below to learn more about the main equipment-related drivers of asset underperformance, benchmarks for power production loss by site size, and more – derived from our 80GW+ dataset of PV systems.