The performance of a solar photovoltaic power plant over its projected life-time is quite imperative to the stakeholders, thus, it necessitates an assessment throughout its life-cycle. The performance ratio (PR) is the most important indicator of overall power plant performance. As the plant ages, the components on the field deteriorate over time, combined with various other factors that impact plant performance it becomes necessary to meet the PPA guarantees.

Meeting performance ratio requirements is a significant milestone for EPC contractors as it is a contractual obligation which either leads to award of a provisional completion certificate or performance liquidated damages. An engineering consultant helps identify areas that lead to plant under-performance and provide solutions to overcome these challenges.

SgurrEnergy is adept at performing plant performance assessment, being one of the few solar focused consultants around the world that has successfully completed working on over 40GW solar PV projects, therefore, we enjoy a vantage like none other. An experience, reputation and trust built over a decade has caused most of our clientele to gravitate around us.

Our
Proficiency –
Your Benefits

Improve Plant performance over time, analyze plant performance data; derive actionable insights and identify trends.

Improve plant productivity, reliability and availability.

Identify key areas of improvement in operational and maintenance practices and ensure they are as per industry’s most relevant and best practices.

Help identify areas that enable lowering of overall operational and maintenance costs.

Help augment performance through repowering and strategic maintenance upgrades.

Analysis-testing-diagnostic-corrective approach towards solving performance problems.

Our Services

Engineers at SgurrEnergy examine the plant SCADA to further scrutinize its integration with plant equipment and components including the weather monitoring station. All the plant data that is recorded is checked for completeness; the quality of reports generated from plant SCADA too is thoroughly assessed.

On identifying any underperforming parameters that affect plant performance SgurrEnergy engineers collaborate with plant owners and operators to conduct a component level study to discover the root cause of the problem and then recommend appropriate solutions to resolve the problems.

Solar PV Plant Performance
Assessment Process

On-Site Solar Resource Assessment

The compilation, screening and correction of on-site recorded weather data (for its use in the assessment of performance of PV

Downtime Analysis & Computation

To compute the duration of breakdown events and its corresponding effect on the performance for the plant

Operational
Loss & Predictions

To assess the actual performance of the plant uising operational data

Generation Analysis & PR Assessment

The final aspect of the analysis includes the comparision of the on-site recorded generation data with the data obtained from software analysis

We undertake
these tasks

Review of condition of solar asset

Performance measurements on key components

I-V curve tracing and Peak Power Measurement

Infrared camera inspection

Energy Loss analysis

Auxiliary consumption analysis

Analysis of plant and grid availability

SCADA Plant performance assessment with analysis of:

Irradiation measurements and uncertainties

Plant availability and grid downtime analysis

Plant performance ratio (PR)

Review of Operational data

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Relevant Experience

Portfolio of over 220MW solar PV projects spread across India
Portfolio of over 220MW solar PV projects spread across India
2018-2019
220MW
Portfolio of over 400MW solar PV projects spread across India
Portfolio of over 400MW solar PV projects spread across India
2019-2020
400MW
Portfolio of over 3000MW operational and under-construction projects in India
Portfolio of over 3000MW operational and under-construction projects in India
2020
3000MW
Portfolio of 75MW Distributed solar PV projects in India
Portfolio of 75MW Distributed solar PV projects in India
2021
75MW
Portfolio of 800MW PV project spread across India
Portfolio of 800MW PV project spread across India
2019-2020
800MW
Portfolio of 250MW PV projects
Portfolio of 250MW PV projects
2020
250MW
Portfolio of 48MW solar PV projects spread across India and Thailand
Portfolio of 48MW solar PV projects spread across India and Thailand
2020
48MW
100MW PV Project in Maharashtra
100MW PV Project in Maharashtra
Ongoing
100MW
130MW solar PV project in India
130MW solar PV project in India
2018
130MW
50MW Project in Vietnam
50MW Project in Vietnam
2018
50MW
50MW project in Vietnam
50MW project in Vietnam
2018
50MW
140MW solar PV project in Rajasthan
140MW solar PV project in Rajasthan
2018
140MW
Portfolio of 25MW roof-top PV Projects
Portfolio of 25MW roof-top PV Projects
2018
25MW
5MW project in Gujarat
5MW project in Gujarat
2016
5MW
15MW PV project in Punjab
15MW PV project in Punjab
2016
15MW
2x20MW solar PV project in Telangana
2x20MW solar PV project in Telangana
2014
2x20MW
40MW solar PV project in Rajasthan
40MW solar PV project in Rajasthan
2014
40MW