continuous improvement of solar pv plants with innovative and new practices

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

Thank You

DV Satya Kumar dvsk@ssael.co.in