While evaluating the performance of a solar power plant, it is important to review problems arising both from unavoidable as well as avoidable reasons. The efficiency of solar power plants can be indicated with the help of the Performance Ratio…
Solar Asset Management – An Introduction – and a North American Event for the Same!
Many of Solar Mango’s clients who are just about getting into installing solar power plants are already keen on knowing how to manage the operations & management of these power plants. Most of these folks have in mind only O&M, and…
Robot Cleaning Technology for Solar Power Plants
Even in a low cost country like India, at Solar Mango we continue getting enquiries on automating O&M for solar power plants. Well, having done the math, our team is not entirely convinced that Indian solar power plants need highly automated O&M – perhaps what is optimal…
Solar PV O and M Market to be 400 GW by 2020
According to a new report from GTM Research and SoliChamba Consulting, Megawatt-Scale PV O&M and Asset Management 2015-2020: Services, Markets and Competitors, the global market for utility-scale PV operations and maintenance will reach 488 gigawatts by 2020, almost triple the…
Costs for Small MW-Scale Grid Connected Power Plants in India – LCOE and Optimal Tariff
Within this section you will find Highlights & inferences Introduction Maximising power generation – details Minimizing costs – details With solar trackers Pessimistic assumptions Acceptable assumptions Optimistic assumptions Without solar trackers Pessimistic assumptions Acceptable assumptions Optimistic assumptions Summary for small…
Quality of India’s Solar Installations Compromised in the Race to Low Tariffs
Now, this should not come as any surprise at all: Many leading personalities from the Indian solar sector feel that the quality of many solar power plant installations in the country could be suffering as developers try to execute costs at really low costs to…