Solar Farm Lessons Learned
This is a practical guide to building a lessons learned for a solar farm project — what went well and badly, captured to improve future projects, adapted to the realities of developing a solar photovoltaic farm.
What a Lessons Learned is
A lessons learned is what went well and badly, captured to improve future projects. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Lessons Learned. On a solar farm project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Solar Farm project
Solar Farm projects live or die on developing a solar photovoltaic farm. A well-built lessons learned gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how solar farm projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- What happened
- Impact
- Root cause
- Recommendation
Solar Farm-specific considerations
Tailor the lessons learned to the risks that most often derail solar farm projects:
- Permitting and grid connection
- Land and environmental approval
- Equipment supply
Example
On a real solar farm project, the lessons learned would be shaped by developing a solar photovoltaic farm. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — permitting and grid connection, land and environmental approval, equipment supply — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.