[RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim

[Lloyd Hoffstatter]

Intertek and other PV test labs should be able to determine the cause on some sample panels.

Best,

Lloyd Hoffstatter
Sunstruck Consulting

Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
________________________________
From: RE-wrenches <re-wrenches-bounces at lists.re-wrenches.org> on behalf of Maverick Brown <maverick at mavericksolar.com>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 4:04:12 PM
To: RE-wrenches
Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Hail Damage insurance claim

Keywords “their engineers”. He’ll need his own engineers and some lawyers.

Thank you,

Maverick


> On Jun 14, 2019, at 2:31 PM, James Jibril Gustafson <djibrilfall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Climate Heroes,
>
> I have a friend with a large ground-mounted system composed Canadian solar modules and Fronius inverters.  Here on the front range of Colorado we have had increasingly damaging and frequent hail storms. He noticed that some of his modules had broken glass, obviously from hail stones.  Many others had cracked cells and hot spots, which also appear to be hail related.
>
> He asked his insurance company to take a look, and they sent an engineering firm to inspect.  Their report came back saying that only the 3 modules with broken glass would be covered for hail, and that the other 139 modules would not be covered.
>
> Has any one else dealt with a similar situation, and/or have hard evidence that hail can damage a module without breaking the glass?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jibril
> Tava Solar LLC
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> List sponsored by Redwood Alliance
>
> List Address: RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org
>
> Change listserver email address & settings:
> http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org
>
> List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html
>
> List rules & etiquette:
> www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm<http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm>
>
> Check out or update participant bios:
> www.members.re-wrenches.org<http://www.members.re-wrenches.org>
>

_______________________________________________
List sponsored by Redwood Alliance

List Address: RE-wrenches at lists.re-wrenches.org

Change listserver email address & settings:
http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org

List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html

List rules & etiquette:
www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm<http://www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm>

Check out or update participant bios:
www.members.re-wrenches.org<http://www.members.re-wrenches.org>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches_lists.re-wrenches.org/attachments/20190614/17568243/attachment.htm>