This lesson is a guide for PV professionals and system owners. The lesson will walk you through the basic understanding of the commissioning, operation and maintenance, and monitoring topics that relate to PV systems. This lesson prepares solar professionals to become PV system operators. Similar to any other construction that exists, O&M and monitoring are pivotal aspects of PV systems, and they are key components in driving the PV system to succeed under different operating conditions. Understanding the main concepts of O&M and system monitoring prolong the operation of PV systems and guarantee expected energy production throughout the systems' lifetimes.
At the successful completion of this lesson, students should be able to:
Lesson 11 will take us one week to complete. Please refer to the Calendar in Canvas for specific timeframes and due dates. Specific directions for assignments below can be found within this lesson and/or in Canvas.
If you have lesson-specific questions, please feel free to post to the Lesson 11 Questions discussion forum in Canvas. While you are there, feel free to post your own responses if you, too, are able to help a classmate with a question. If you have questions about the overall course or wish to share and discuss any "extra" course related commentary (interesting articles, etc.), please feel free to post to the General Questions and Discussion forum.
Links
[1] http://assets.fiercemarkets.net/public/smartgridnews/1021496AddressingPVOaMChallenges7-2010_1_.pdf
[2] http://www.solarabcs.org/about/publications/reports/operations-maintenance/pdfs/SolarABCs-35-2013.pdf
[3] https://www.solarprofessional.com
[4] http://prod.sandia.gov/techlib/access-control.cgi/2016/160649r.pdf
[5] http://energy.sandia.gov/wp-content/gallery/uploads/dlm_uploads/SAND2014_20612_PVROM.pdf
[6] http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy15osti/63235.pdf