One program. Full plant visibility, every year.
A yearly inspection subscription that bundles drone thermography, field EL and electrical checks into one annual Plant Health Report - trended against the factory EL baseline of your own modules. Early warning on degradation, defects and warranty issues, year after year.
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What the program includes
An annual PV plant health inspection combines 100% drone IR thermography, field EL sampling, IV curve and electrical safety checks into one yearly campaign and report - detecting degradation, hidden defects and warranty risks before they compound into revenue loss.
Every year, per site:
- 100% drone IR thermography of the plant, flown and reported to IEC TS 62446-3
- Field EL sampling analysed with SELMA - trended against factory and prior-year images per serial number
- IV curve, visual and electrical safety checks on statistically selected strings
- Annual Plant Health Report - one document: findings, trends, severity ranking, recommended actions
- Degradation and warranty-risk early-warning flags - issues surfaced while claims are still possible
Deliverables: annual Plant Health Report with year-on-year trend, defect maps, prioritised action list, claim-risk register.
Why annual - and why trended
A single inspection is a snapshot. Degradation is a movie.
Microcrack growth, PID onset, connector aging and soiling patterns develop over years. Any inspector can tell you what your plant looks like today; the questions that protect your revenue are directional: Is it getting worse? How fast? Which strings first? Will it breach a warranty threshold before the warranty expires?
Those questions can only be answered against a baseline. Sinovoltaics trends every annual campaign against the previous years - and, for factory-inspected assets, against the modules’ original factory EL fingerprints. The result is a per-serial-number health history that turns maintenance planning, warranty management and budget forecasting from guesswork into scheduling.
What competitors sell instead
Every major inspection provider offers the pieces: a thermography flight here, an EL campaign there, an electrical audit when something breaks. Each is quoted, mobilised and reported separately - and none of them trends against a factory baseline.
The Annual Plant Health Program packages the pieces into one campaign, one report and one predictable annual budget line per MWp. One mobilisation instead of three. One integrated dataset instead of disconnected PDFs.
When this program fits
- Operating utility-scale plants past their first year of operation
- Fleets approaching EPC (year 2) or product warranty milestones - pair with End-of-Warranty Campaigns
- Assets whose modules Sinovoltaics inspected at the factory (strongest value: full factory-to-field trending)
- Portfolios wanting one framework agreement across sites and countries
Engagement model
Multi-year subscription, priced per MWp per year. Fleet framework agreements cover multiple sites with one contract, one campaign calendar and consolidated fleet reporting.
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