Featured in India doubles down – 04-2016

Rigorous supervision delivers reliable output

O&M study: France’s kiloWattsol provides engineering services to PV power plant developers and has carried out performance analysis of 395 operational plants in the EU. Of these it has carried out detailed analysis of 77. kiloWattsol’s Stéphane Vidal shares some of the key outcomes from the analysis.

The aim of post-construction yield studies is to assess the future generation capacity of power plants by primarily using the production data recorded during the operational period. They also include an evaluation of the downtime rate and the degradation factor for the considered period. In some cases, site visits can additionally be performed, which allow …

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