EVENTS & CONFERENCES
McHale Team Attending 2026 RE+ Conference
We’re heading to RE+ 2026 in Las Vegas! McHale & Associates will be attending RE+ 2026, November 17–19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Dennis Lee Kirkpatrick, PMP, Joseph McHale, P.E., and Karsten Mikal Kopperstad will be there representing...
McHale Team Attending 2026 CTI Annual Conference
McHale & Associates, Inc. is heading to the 2026 CTI Annual Conference in Houston, TX, and we’re excited to connect with fellow cooling tower professionals! We’re proud to share that Shawn Goedeke, Ph.D., and John Shaffer will be attending on...
See You at RE+ 2025 in Las Vegas!
We’re excited to announce that the McHale & Associates, Inc. team will be attending RE+ 2025, the premier clean energy event, happening September 8–11 in Las Vegas! From utility-scale innovations to breakthrough technologies in energy storage...
NEWS & Announcements
Wrapping Up 2025 with Our Strongest Year of Performance Testing
As an EPC or Owner, are you pushing to achieve Substantial Completion of your PV facility before year-end to meet final payment or contractual requirements? McHale & Associates is ready to help. We have capacity to support a few additional...
Happy Independence Day!
On this Independence Day, as we fire up grills and light up the skies, it's worth reflecting not just on national freedom—but on the kind of freedom that keeps power plants, solar farms, and energy storage projects running smoothly: Independent...
Wesley Newland, 20 Years
Today, we honor and appreciate Wesley Newland for his 20 years of dedication, hard work, and commitment to McHale & Associates, Inc. His passion, expertise, and unwavering loyalty have shaped McHale’s success. From the countless challenges he...
TECH PUB LIBRARY & Services
Tracker Accuracy Over Time: Managing a Quiet Source of Energy Loss
Tracker underperformance rarely manifests as alarms. Instead, it quietly erodes energy through small angular errors, actuator drift, control bias, or backtracking misalignment. By the time it appears in monthly KPIs, meaningful revenue has often...
Why Soiling Analysis Breaks Down Without an Acceptance-Tested Performance Baseline
Soiling losses are easy to assume but difficult to quantify accurately. Many O&M teams attempt to infer soiling directly from raw SCADA data, only to find the signal obscured by sensor noise, poor normalization, or unverified operating...
From Acceptance to Operations: Using the Acceptance Performance Test Model to Trigger PV Module Cleaning
Many owners still trigger module cleaning through visual inspection or fixed schedules. While simple, that approach often leads to two avoidable outcomes: cleaning too early and increasing O&M spend before losses justify the work, or cleaning...
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