Solar power generation pipeline maintenance

Why do solar power plants need maintenance?

However, following this approach often leads to unexpected failures, production losses, higher costs, and compromised power quality . Consistent management and maintenance of large-scale solar power plants are crucial to ensure grid stability, which goes beyond individual solar arrays.

What is a good corrective maintenance plan for PV power plants?

One important aspect of a good corrective maintenance plan for PV power plants is ensuring that spare parts are available and accessible when needed to avoid prolonged plant down-time/outage due to equipment malfunctioning or damage.

Why is maintenance risk management important in PV power plants?

In large PV power plants nearly all types of maintenance work bear safety risks. A well-orga-nized maintenance strategy applies a special maintenance risk management to provide an as safe as possible working environment. It covers and presents all relevant hazards and presents adequate solutions for mitigation.

Why is it important to maintain a well-constructed PV installation?

It is, however, equally important to operate and maintain a well-constructed PV installation to ensure that it is oper-ating according to its safety and functional requirements and that the PV system is producing the amount of solar energy as targeted in the project business book.

Who provides PV power forecasting services?

PV power forecasting services are generally offered by PV monitoring service providers and/or O&M contractors; however, other external service providers can also provide this function, based on proprietary or publicly available meteorological forecasts, satellite data, statistical methods, and site observations/measurements.

How much solar PV capacity will be installed by the end of 2019?

The report presented findings which showed that the installed solar PV capacity by the end of 2019 totaled about 627 GW DC, an increase of about 115GW DC from that of 2018 (Feldman and Margolis 2019).