Voltus reports Pensan inverter outage and resolved tracker sensor issue at Kamas

Casey Hockenberry of Voltus Power briefed the council on Columbia Solar operations for July and August. "During August, the Pensan solar project had 1 inverter went offline for about 2 weeks due to a breaker issue. This breaker was replaced, so the system's been fixed," Hockenberry said. She added a tracker underperformance at the Kamas project was traced to a sensor failure that staff repaired, and that a 12‑hour utility outage on Aug. 1 due to wildfire response temporarily reduced output across sites.

Council members noted August output was lower than July and asked whether the operational issues explained the change in capacity factors; Hockenberry agreed the cited issues were likely contributors. No further operational actions were requested; staff will continue to monitor output and report irregularities.