Featured in O&M plays its hand – 02-2015

Costs and benefits of monitoring

System management: The smaller a PV plant, the harder it is to implement economically feasible power plant management. Manfred Bächler, the General Director of Pervorm, explains the key considerations in technical management of small and medium-sized PV plants under 100 kWp.

During Germany’s PV boom, solar plant monitoring and management was a niche market. Although these services were included in utility-scale projects to meet the requirements of investors or the large banks that financed them, in many cases there were no detailed standards or requirements. Generally, value creation was better in new PV plants. In many …

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