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Global Sustainable Energy Solutions, an international renewable energy engineering, training and consultancy company, will hold a workshop on ‘global solar best practices’, aimed at teaching how best to install solar power plants.
Poor construction
The workshop is set against the backdrop of huge underperformance of projects. The data on this is as yet imprecise, but independent testing companies – such as Underwriters Laboratories – have noted a big chunk of the 2,600-odd MW of solar power plants in the country are under-performing, and the biggest reason for that is poor construction.
“This is due to poor site selection, system design faults, frequent equipment failure, lower solar irradiation than supposed or unplanned grid failures,” says GSES.
Systems failures
Nor is this India-specific. Quoting European Insurance Statistics of PV system failure, GSES says that 36 per cent of the systems failures are due to wrong installation and another 27 pr cent due to wrong electrical design.
“These are two aspects that can be rectified through correct training,” says a press release from GSES.
The workshop will be held in Delhi between August 11 and 13.
An international expert trainer, Geoff Stapleton, will conduct the workshop which will focus on aspects such as impact of accuracy, reliability and p-value of solar radiation data on the plant performance, technology selection based on local site conditions, system design process and component selection, impact of dust, shading, temperature and other system losses on final system output & economics and installation, commissioning practices and their impact on O&M activities.
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