This is a specific guest submit from Ray Burgess, CEO of Solar Energy Technologies. It covers some more moment (but really critical) elements of photo voltaic electrical power that I consider are value a rapid read, or, if you are involved in photo voltaic at this stage, a lot more than just a fast study…. Appreciate the piece and let us know if you have more on this in the comments underneath!
by Ray Burgess
When it will come to managing the performance of big-scale photo voltaic crops, a variety of queries should be answered to address no matter whether a solar method is doing well in terms of energy harvest, as effectively as no matter whether or not it is cost-successful, safe, and accomplishing ROI expectations.
As solar programs increase in scale and complexity, engineers and field provider technicians who are responsible for the operations and preservation (O&M) of big commercial and utility-scale PV arrays should response the following:
- How do I know that the array is creating the highest power possible at first commissioning?
- How do I know that the array is making the greatest power possible on an ongoing foundation?
- How do I swiftly discover and right faults to decrease electricity decline and method downtime prior to and in the course of on-internet site troubleshooting?
- How do I build a proactive and web site-certain O & M strategy?
- How do I maximize and confirm the value (ROI) of each service dispatch?
- How do I decrease protection hazards for gear and personnel?
Providing timely and exact answers to these questions continues to be a techniques and method challenge for internet site engineers and operators. Current solar monitoring programs are based on simple-dimensional, and mostly inactive info architectures. This kind of methods give robust logging, visualization and reporting nevertheless, their alarm management, diagnostics, and asset administration capabilities are minimal. Info islands exist because there is restricted or even no integration in between PV monitoring methods and in-property enterprise programs. In brief, there is an overpowering quantity of details coming from the monitoring systems, but the facts are not straight linked to the organization policies that the internet site proprietors have set in place — just a mountain of information that need to be manually sifted by means of, deciphered and analyzed.
Next-era, enterprise-all set PV administration answers allow array operators to quickly answer the inquiries previously mentioned and enhance on current problems.
These remedies, this kind of as the Solar Energy Technologies Clarity™ System, combine extensive and higher-accuracy DC monitoring abilities with innovative and multi-dimensional information architectures that cross-integrate logged array functionality and environmental data with design-driven analytics, company and fiscal guidelines, O & M very best procedures, and stock management. The worth and rewards delivered to the two industry personnel and management are significant and, most importantly, quantifiable.
Ray Burgess joined the Photo voltaic Strength Technologies crew as President and CEO in July 2009. He has about 30 years of leadership experience in the engineering sector, spanning semiconductors, computer software and micro-mechanical systems. Ray can be achieved at: connecting@spowertech.com.
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CleanTechnica
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