Featured in Electric avenues – 09-2017

Calculating the cost

Tracker maintenance: Trying to chase down O&M costs for trackers is a bit like a trip down Alice’s rabbit hole. The rich landscape of detail that materializes tends to obscure the original mission. pv magazine digs into the quandary to investigate whether the numbers stack up.

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pv magazine

05 Sep 2017

Image: Array Technologies

“There is no hard and fast rule here for what tracker O&M should cost,” suggests Cormac Gilligan, Senior Research Manager in Technology for IHSMarkit. Historically, trackers O&M costs at utility-scale plants may have amounted to as much as 5% of annual revenue. Today, leading manufacturers claim their O&M costs are well under 3%. Still, some …

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