VDE Americas Improves Accuracy of Hail Risk Model to Enhance Solar Farm Risk Assessments

VDE highlights underestimated wind speed factor in hail damage to PV assets

VDE Americas has updated its hail risk model with new wind data, claiming it will improve the accuracy of hail-damage predictions for PV projects.

VDE Americas upgrades hail risk model for utility-scale solar

VDE Americas has enhanced its Hail Risk Model with updated wind data to improve early warning and tracker stow strategies for utility-scale solar. CEO Brian Grenko explains how the models influence tracker design and storm response.From pv magazine USA VDE Americas, a California-based solar technical services and analysis firm, has developed an enhanced version of its proprietary Hail Risk Model incorporating newly analyzed wind speed data. Acco…

VDE Americas enhances Hail Risk Model to improve survivability of utility-scale solar

CEO Brian Grenko explains how models influence tracker design and storm response strategies.California-based solar technical services and analysis firm VDE Americas has developed an enhanced version of its proprietary Hail Risk Model incorporating newly analyzed wind speed data. According to VDE, severe storms with wind-driven hail struck dozens of utility-scale solar arrays in 2025. At the same time, catastrophic losses were lower than in previ…

VDE Hail Risk Model updated to reflect increasing wind speeds during hailstorms

VDE Americas has enhanced its proprietary Hail Risk Model with newly analyzed wind speed data, improving the accuracy of hail damage predictions for solar power generation facilities. Recent meteorological data analysis by VDE reveals that winds during hailstorms can be stronger than previously understood, with wind speeds at some locations more than doubling earlier estimates.… The post VDE Hail Risk Model updated to reflect increasing wind spe…

VDE Americas Improves Accuracy of Hail Risk Model to Enhance Solar Farm Risk Assessments

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 10, 2026-