Tag: solar maintenance

The Right Person for the Job: Solar Technicians vs. Installers

With residential solar maintenance and repair, the importance of getting the right person on the job is often overlooked in the industry. While reaching out to the original installers when issues arise seems to make sense, there is a difference between the specialties of installing versus maintaining solar equipment.  The original installation company may or…
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Optimized Route Density for Lower Solar Asset Management Cost

Portfolio managers have a lot to coordinate. Apart from planned-for scheduled maintenance, break-fixes, and other unscheduled maintenance, there are major threats to keeping solar assets online consistently. This can be a challenge, especially as assets are acquired across long distances, which is often the case.  Although both residential and commercial solar is on the upswing,…
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Keeping Standards and Operation Rates High with 2M Solar Sites

It’s official. The number of PV solar sites across the U.S. is now 2 million strong.[1] The update from SEIA comes with the perspective that while the first million took almost 40 years to accomplish, this second million has come just three years after that 1-million-site milestone was reached. It’s an exciting time to be a…
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ESP Now Approved on Mosaic Financial Platform

SunSystem Technology, LLC (SST) announced today that its Extended Service Plan (ESP), the solar industry’s first-to-market homeowner service plan, has been approved by Mosaic. This will allow SST’s solar partners to finance an O&M service agreement at the point of sale by yet another financial platform. Mosaic, one of the nation’s leading residential solar financing…
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Safari Energy enhances commercial solar returns through preventative maintenance partnership

Safari Energy, the leading partner for commercial and industrial solar power projects, today announced that it has awarded solar PV services provider SunSystem Technology, LLC with its preventative maintenance portfolio. The highly competitive process resulted in SunSystem Technology winning a three-year contract to conduct system inspections, testing and maintenance. The work spans more than 130…
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PV O&M is Essential for Your Solar System’s ROI

Introduction The commercial solar PV industry continues to grow and shows every indication of continuing at a rapid rate. The requirement for professional and experienced operations and maintenance service providers has grown right along with it.  Initially, commercial PV owners and managers were not as concerned with availability and rapid return to service times as…
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