Gensol Utilities built on global best practices on O&M and in depth understanding of design and development Indian solar projects from Gensol delivers comprehensive Operation & Maintenance services under one roof. This helps IPPs and EPCs focus on their core area of expertise of project development and building solar plants.

Approach to O&M of a Rooftop solar plant differs from the MW scale projects. While, it is possible to have dedicated engineers, tools, spares etc for a utility MW scale project, this would end up becoming extremely costly for Rooftop Project. However, Gensol with 100+ trained engineers & technicians spread across different states in the country, can provide customized and cost effective offering ranging from pre agreed scheduled maintenance to as-required on call basis for rooftop projects.

Although, Gensol Utilities is a third party independent operator which is equipment, EPC, location and technology agnostic, yet we undertake Availability and Performance Ratio guarantees based on our experience and our quality of maintenance of the solar power plant. The guarantees make sure that our interests are completely aligned with our clients and that we have our skin in the game along with them.

Corrective or reactive maintenance addresses equipment repair needs and breakdowns after their occurrence to mitigate unplanned downtime. Though a certain amount of reactive maintenance will likely be necessary over the course of a plant’s 25 year lifetime, it can be lessened through more proactive PM and condition-based maintenance (CBM) strategies.

Although, Gensol Utilities is a third party independent operator which is equipment, EPC, location and technology agnostic, yet we undertake Availability and Performance Ratio guarantees based on our experience and our quality of maintenance of the solar power plant. The guarantees make sure that our interests are completely aligned with our clients and that we have our skin in the game along with them.

Plant Health Diagnosis with Thermographic Camera & IV Curve Tester assists in checking for warranty claims against modules degradation. A thermographic inspection of the plant helps in detecting hot spots, detecting and predicting underperforming modules and searching for improper electrical connection and faulty diodes and fuses.

Gensol’s Experts and Analysts monitor the plants remotely for immediate detection of faults,prioritizing alarms and guiding site teams. Further, they crunch the weather, performance and faults data to bring out insights to increase your plant performance - from optimizing module cleaning frequency to forecasting generation.

Different Equipment in a solar project have different warranty time periods. Modules are warrantied for 25 years, inverters for 5 years and most other equipment for 1 to 3 years. Further, sub components of different equipment have different lifetimes and need to be replaced. Gensol-from its global experience of managing O&M for 13 years, recommends spare management plan to ensure availability and quick replenishment of spares and effective warranty claim communication and coordination.

Soiling losses caused by unclean modules, typically range from less than 1% where robot based dry cleaning is used to more than 3% where water based cleaning is followed. Gensol optimizes module cleaning frequency by studying additional cost and revenue of different cleaning cycles. Vegetation abatement includes cutting of grass enough to allow for the plant temperature to be cool while not casting shadow on modules.

Seasonal Tracking can increase generation from a solar plant by 3 - 4% while daily automatic tracking can increase generation by 15% over Fixed Tilt Solar Plants. However, seasonal tracking typically involves hiring manpower to manually change the tilts and daily automatic tracking needs to ensure maintenance and lubrication of the moving parts.

High Voltage Maintenance includes testing, troubleshooting and housekeeping of Plant & Substation Switchyards of. Gensol has experience of managing switchyards from 11 kV to 220 kV. We ensure compliance to best practices, equipment operational manuals, grid codes and internally developed Standard Operating Procedures to ensure maximum safety.

Safety and Security of Solar Asset and team onsite is of most importance to any Project Owner. Gensol builds local relationships, engages in community development activities, maintains security force at the site.