How to Trust Your Data and Tie Operations to Financial Outcomes

Many renewable energy portfolios are underperforming relative to expectations—but the challenge isn’t just performance. It’s trust.

Asset owners often lack confidence in the data they rely on to make decisions, while O&M providers face challenges demonstrating impact across fragmented systems and inconsistent reporting. The result is a disconnect between performance data, operational execution, and financial outcomes.

In this session, we will bring together perspectives from Sandia National Laboratories and Spruce Power to explore:

• Why performance data is often inconsistent and difficult to validate
• How lack of standardization impacts decision-making
• Where misalignment occurs between asset owners and O&M providers
• Practical approaches to improving data trust and aligning operations with financial outcomes

This webinar is designed to provide practical insight into how organizations can move from tracking performance to making financially-driven decisions.

Speakers:

• Sara Marra-Medeiros, Director, Distributed Assets, enSights.ai
• Julie Sponagel, Director of Growth and Market Development, Spruce Power
• Marios Theristis, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories

This webinar is sponsored by:

Original Air Date: May 19, 2026

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Disclaimer – The positions and opinions expressed in this webinar are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of SEIA.