Az SMART facilitates sound utility-scale decision-making by:
- Building consensus on policies needed to build a solar energy economy;
- Pinpointing cost, geographic, economic, and environmental conditions for solar project viability;
- Accelerating the permitting and siting of scalable projects;
- Reducing the risks associated with solar projects;
- Making government agencies more responsive to permitting requests;
- Encouraging stakeholder agreement about utility-scale solar projects and the associated transmission infrastructure.
Az SMART’s distributed generation models identify the optimum number of PV panel installations, the maximum revenue available, the daily impact on a power system and the storage requirements needed to reduce voltage fluctuations and smooth connections.