Featured in Triumph for our times – 01-2016

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O&M: The solar industry is coming of age. While building new capacity remains of primary focus, PV owners and developers are in parallel putting increased emphasis on the optimization of the existing fleet in order to achieve greater efficiency and asset value. Kamal Soundararajan and Ragna Schmidt-Haupt of DNV GL (formerly GL Garrad Hassan) provide an overview of recommended practices and a glimpse into the future of drones for a modernized and holistic approach to solar asset operations.

As the global solar fleet grows larger and older, the spending and focus on solar power plant operations and maintenance is growing significantly. With this new focus, a number of key issues tend to surface and re-surface. Firstly, as solar farms get larger in size and scale, there is an opportunity to capitalize on areas …

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