India version: Operation & Maintenance Best Practice Guidelines

• SolarPower Europe has actually launched the India edition: Operation & Maintenance Best Practice Guidelines.

Structure on Version 4.0 of SolarPower Europe's O&M Best Practice Guidelines, this version has actually been adapted to the Indian context in a collaboration in between the National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) and also SolarPower Europe. It has been changed thoroughly in a joint European-Indian Task Force.

O&M is a sector of wonderful significance for the solar market in India, which is home to one of the biggest fleets of solar PV plants worldwide. As power plants age, the sector has actually become aware that proper "healthcare" is essential for power plants to satisfy performance assumptions. Today, O&M has actually come to be a standalone sector in the solar worth chain in India with a boosting variety of firms specialising solely in solar O&M. Yet there are still significant high quality discrepancies in between services given by different O&M providers.

To address these obstacles, NSEFI and also SolarPower Europe, sustained by IGEF, joined forces to establish the India edition of the O&M Best Practice Guidelines. Our joint O&M Task Force was released in March 2020 in New Delhi, assembling more than 40 leading solar professionals from India as well as Europe. The kick-off meeting was complied with by a series of online working meetings, in which we fine-tuned Version 4.0 of SolarPower Europe's O&M Best Practice Guidelines in order to show Indian market conditions and regulatory demands. The result is a guidance that we hope will certainly help Indian solar stakeholders to enhance quality in the O&M segment. This document is targeted at O&M service providers, along with other parties involved in the procedure of solar power plants, such as proprietors and also investors, lending institutions, technical experts and also data-related service providers. It will certainly help to develop typical standards and also increase openness in the market. It is likewise worth keeping in mind that solar O&M is a specifically worth extensive section that supports a great deal of regional jobs, as well as drives vital solar technologies notably in the field of digitalization.