Comprehensive PV System Inspections
- Staff of multiple Electrical and Mechanical Engineers engaged in all O&M activities
- Technically skilled personnel inspect, identify and implement action plans for both preventive and corrective maintenance
- Mechanically inspect all BOS equipment for failures or non-conformance issues
- Inspect modules and racking to identify any failures or damages
- Inspect site for vegetation, pest or erosion issues
- Comprehensive report with photos and prioritized list of non-conformance items
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PV System Monitoring
- 24/7 monitoring of PV system, inverter and combiner level performance
- Substantial experience managing portfolios with multiple monitoring solutions
- Real-time inverter graphing from monitoring to identify outages or issues often prior to monitoring alerts being generate
- Alert recognition, analysis and action plans to minimize false alarms
- Gatekeeper role to maximize production and system ROI while minimizing O&M expenditures
- Highly qualified engineers to analyze alerts/alarms/faults
- Detailed understanding of both PV and inverter operations
- Comprehensive processing of complex inverter and performance data to determine root cause of production issues
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System Performance Analysis & Reporting
- Engineering-grade analytics; identify performance variation via inverter/combiner/string comparative analytics
- Analysis of system/inverter performance against weather adjusted performance metrics
- Document known production loss issues, identify underperformance issues and provide actionable plans to investigate and resolve issues
- Variety of reporting frequencies from daily/monthly/annually
- Monthly PPA Invoicing and Meter Audit/Verification Available
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Preventative Maintenance
- Ensure equipment reliability and validity of manufacturer warranty
- Perform manufacturer recommended preventative maintenance on all equipment ensuring both equipment reliability and validity of manufacturer warranty
- Central and String Inverters
- Combiners/Recombiners
- Transformers/Switchgear
- DAS/ Monitoring Equipment
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Electrical Testing and Servicing
- IV Curve Tracing & Analysis
- String Level Open Circuit and Operating Current Verification
- Identification of issues, production impact and corrective action plans
- Over 500MW of IV Curve Tracing experience with engineering quality analysis
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Thermal Imaging
- Thermal scans of PV equipment including all field terminations
- Non-contact verification of adequate torque
- Staff of Certified Level 1 Thermographers
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Warranty Enforcement
- Make and coordinate claims under available warranties from manufacturers or installers
- Maintain relationships with manufacturers to enable timely reconciliation of equipment failures
- Focused on restoring production and minimizing losses
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Maintenance Logs & Service Tickets
- Maintain historical data, performance history and logs of service/repair tickets
- Identify trends and provide corrective action prior to catastrophic failures
- Historical analysis of equipment issues and failures provides insight into future equipment selection and O&M staffing requirements
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