Our Services
XA Research supports utility-scale solar asset owners, operators, and investors with digital engineering services that turn plant data into clear, decision-ready insight. We combine physics-based modeling, high-resolution analytics, and practical engineering judgement to understand how your assets are performing, how they should be performing under given conditions, and where the biggest opportunities for improvement lie across the project lifecycle.
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From initial layout decisions through to late-life planning and repowering, we help you benchmark performance, uncover hidden technical losses, evaluate tracking strategies, and quantify degradation and remaining useful life. We provide focused analyses and transparent recommendations that can be acted on by asset managers, O&M teams, engineers, and financiers, giving you the confidence to make high-impact decisions about your solar portfolio.
XA Research supports wind asset owners, operators, and investors with digital engineering services that transform Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), metocean, and operational data into clear insight on performance, risk, and value. By combining physics-based modeling, data analytics, and practical turbine and farm-level experience, we help you understand how your assets are actually behaving in the field, how they should be performing under given conditions, and what levers you can pull to close the gap.
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Across the project lifecycle, we analyze wake interactions, underperformance patterns, turbine health, and micro-siting decisions to identify where energy is being lost and how asset life can be extended with acceptable risk. We provide targeted, transparent analyses that link directly to operational and investment decisions, giving asset managers, operations and maintenance (O&M) teams, engineers, and financiers the confidence to optimize production, plan life extension, and protect long-term value in their wind portfolios.
About Us
XA Research is a digital engineering firm focused on helping owners, operators, and investors get more value from their renewable energy assets. We specialize in physics-based analytics and software tools for utility-scale solar and wind projects, turning raw plant and SCADA data into clear, defensible insight. Our work sits at the intersection of performance engineering, data science, and practical operations, giving clients a transparent view of how their assets are performing today, how they should be performing under given conditions, and what actions will create the greatest uplift in yield and lifetime value.
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Built on an engineering-first mindset, XA Research is not a generic software vendor or a traditional consultancy. We design and apply digital tools that are grounded in real-world models, clear assumptions, and traceable methods, so our results stand up to internal scrutiny and investment decisions. Whether the goal is to diagnose underperformance, optimize layout and control strategies, plan life extension, or support transactions, we aim to provide decision-ready outputs that link directly to technical and commercial outcomes.
Our Expertise
Renewable Asset Performance Analytics
We specialize in turning raw SCADA, met station, and operational data into clear performance insight for utility-scale solar and wind assets.
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Digital Engineering and Model-Based Analysis
We build and apply digital models that reflect how assets behave in the real world, not just on paper.
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Life Extension and Risk-Informed Planning
We help clients quantify degradation, remaining useful life, and structural or operational risks across their assets.
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Decision-Ready Reporting and Advisory
Our deliverables are built for decision-makers, not just analysts. We provide concise, defensible reports and recommendations that link directly to O&M priorities, commercial strategy, and investment cases.
Example Studies
Solar - Utility-Scale Photovoltaic (PV) Underperformance Diagnosis
We analyzed a multi-year SCADA dataset from a utility-scale solar plant that was consistently missing its 50% probability of exceedance (P50) target.
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Solar - Life Extension and Repowering Assessment
For an aging PV asset nearing the end of its initial power purchase agreement (PPA) term, we quantified module and inverter degradation, projected future yield, and evaluated several repowering scenarios.
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Wind - Wake Effect and Farm Control Optimization
We evaluated wake interactions across a large onshore wind farm using turbine SCADA, wind direction data, and wake modelling.
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Wind - Underperformance Forensics
When a portion of a wind farm showed persistent underperformance, we reconstructed the 'should-have-produced' energy using reanalysis and site data, then benchmarked turbines against each other.
Our Expertise
“Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure”
Henry Petroski
