Continuous Improvement of Solar PV Plants with Innovative and New
Practices
Author:
Co Author:
Makis Tzierakis Business Development Manager ALECTRIS
D V Satya Kumar
Managing Director, Shri Shakti Alternative Energy Ltd. ALECTRIS partner INDIA
Key Highlights
Classification of Solar PV Plants
Potential for Improvement in all 3 Categories !
Common KPIs in Solar Industry
• Developers typically use PR and AVA to evaluate the EPC / O&M contractor performance
• very useful as long as the raw data of the calculations is precise and coherent
• Banks and Investors are more concerned about Actual Vs Base case scenarios
• useful tool for evaluating the financial performance of an asset, it is less useful for technically evaluating a Plant
The Continuous Improvement Concept
The Continuous
Improvement Cycle
Continuous Improvement – Deming’s Wheel
Continuous Improvement – Kaizen Approach
ACTIS – Asset Control Telemetry Information System’ !
ACTIS has several unique features
O&M approach to under performing plants
A Case StudyComplete Turnaround of 4 PV Plants in Foggia, Italy
India – Preliminary Studies
Analysis of O&M Costs for a typical 20MW plant
Analysis of Performance of Solar Plants under JNNSM*
* Capacity Utilization Factor (CUF) for different Solar Plants under JNNSM, based on the data published in MNRE website
Analysis of Performance of Solar Plants in Gujarat#
# Capacity Utilization Factor (CUF) for different Solar Plants in Gujarat, based on the report published by REsolve
Conclusions
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