A licensed forensic electrical engineer with utility-scale solar and storage experience, for counsel and carriers handling PV and battery storage failures and disputes.
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Ohm Forensics provides solar and battery storage expert witness services in litigation, arbitration, and insurance claims. Solar and battery storage disputes combine power electronics, utility interconnection, and construction quality, and the records that explain a failure are often spread across inverter logs, monitoring platforms, and construction documents.
The engineer on these matters has worked on utility-scale solar and storage since 2011 and served as engineer of record on commercial rooftop solar projects. We address the electrical engineering questions.
Connectors, combiner boxes, DC wiring, and terminations, including moisture intrusion, installation, and manufacturing theories.
Central and string inverters, power conversion systems, and transformers, analyzed with event and fault logs.
The electrical side of battery storage incidents: battery monitoring and protection, electrical faults, supporting systems, and how the system responded.
Ground fault and arcing detection, grounding, and whether the protective devices worked as required.
Underproduction, capacity, and availability claims, separating equipment, design, and operating causes.
Design and construction defects, startup testing, delay, warranty claims, and interconnection requirements.
As-built drawings, single-lines, specifications, and equipment submittals.
Inverter, battery, and monitoring system data, including alarms and fault logs.
Inspection, infrared imaging, insulation testing, and panel performance testing where available.
Testing of failed components through an outside independent laboratory under an agreed protocol.
The work is led by a licensed Professional Engineer with an MBA and more than twenty years in power systems. That career was spent designing and reviewing the kinds of systems that end up in dispute: utility substations from 4 kV to 345 kV, utility-scale solar and battery storage plants, EV charging installations, and medium voltage distribution for large data centers, along with protection and coordination, fault current, and arc flash studies.
The engineering practice is still active. Opinions rest on current codes, current equipment, and current utility practice, which matters when opposing counsel asks when the expert last designed the thing being testified about.
Yes. The engineer's experience covers utility-scale solar and storage plants and commercial rooftop systems, as designer, engineer of record, and owner's engineer.
Yes. Failed connectors, solar panels, and other components can be tested through an outside independent laboratory under a protocol agreed by the parties, with chain of custody documented.
Inverter and battery logs, monitoring system data, and failed components. Logs can be overwritten and monitoring accounts can lapse, so early preservation matters.
No engagement, no cost. If we are conflicted or this is not the right discipline for your question, we will say so.