971: The Hidden Bottleneck Slowing Solar Automation | Nick de Vries, Matt Campbell & Frédéric Laure
If robotic automation is becoming inevitable in utility-scale solar, where does that thesis run into the realities of actually building a power plant?
That's the question behind today’s episode.
We start with Nick de Vries, CTO of Silicon Ranch, to ask what an owner actually wants from automation. Nick's answer sets the standard: the technology matters only if it improves safety, quality, repeatability, and the performance of an asset Silicon Ranch expects to own for decades.
Then Matt Campbell, CEO of Terabase, takes us into the field, where his team is applying manufacturing principles to…
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