Maintaining Photovoltaic Solar Systems and Extending Their Service Life

Course Overview

Equipment involved in photovoltaic system maintenance rarely fails without warning; the warning is usually in data nobody reviewed. Reactive work on this aspect of engineering and maintenance work costs several times what the same job costs when planned. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the wider engineering and maintenance work agenda rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The professional literature on photovoltaic system maintenance converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. The programme suits teams tackling this area of engineering and maintenance work together as readily as individuals attending alone. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in the engineering and maintenance work capability, not around theory headings. Improvement in photovoltaic system maintenance stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on this area of engineering and maintenance work and revise it on evidence. The final module sets out how progress on this aspect of engineering and maintenance work will be evidenced six months later.