Featured in More than just a number – 03-2018

Troubleshooting efforts in PV plants

Plant maintenance: Troubleshooting in solar plants requires not only trying to find a diagnosis of why the performance ratio is reduced, but also to localize faulty modules. John Davies, Operations Director – Solar and Energy Storage at operations and maintenance firm Cobalt Energy, shares with pv magazine his thoughts on fault detection, troubleshooting, and thermography in the field.

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Michael Fuhs

13 Mar 2018

John Davies is the Operations Director – Solar and Energy Storage at Cobalt Energy, a U.K.-based operations and maintenance firm for the renewable energy sector.

Soiling, insulation errors, broken bypass diodes, and failed module strings are only some of the possible causes for yield loss that operators of solar plants have to take into account. pv magazine has reported on cases where causes were researched and faults have been detected using today’s standard technology. John Davies, Operations Director – Solar and …

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