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Julia Zonneveld

Solar Performance Specialist

Enurgen

Julia Zonneveld is a Solar Performance Specialist at Enurgen with a background in mechanical engineering and renewable energy operations. She leads deployments of Enurgen’s DUET Platform for GWs of utility-scale solar assets internationally, building digital twins of operating solar plants to identify every source of energy loss across plant hierarchies, including down to string-level. Julia draws on her hands-on experience to close the gap between design-phase assumptions and real-world plant performance. Her work gives designers, operators and asset owners a clear, data-driven path to increase revenue.

Solar and solar + storage projects are won or lost on early decisions—before drawings are “final.” This panel looks at how constraints and equipment assumptions ripple into permitting, procurement, construction sequencing, and O&M, and how better option testing upfront reduces late surprises.

  • Why early layouts create downstream risk when they’re built on thin assumptions
  • How to compress feasibility cycles while keeping outputs credible for stakeholders
  • Where automation reduces handoffs, inconsistency, and late-stage redesign
  • How land, interconnection strategy, equipment selection, and storage integration shape layout logic
  • What “delivery-ready” design means early: fewer surprises in permitting, procurement, construction, and long-term operations