Solairedirect has unique expertise in the design, production and operation of solar PV rooftops, both for private houses and large industrial buildings.
Solairedirect’s aim is to increase the value of rooftops by enabling private and professional customers to produce clean, efficient and competitive electricity, making photovoltaic power an indispensable resource for enhancing a building’s energy performance.
Photovoltaics, an element in the building’s energy performance
With this in mind, from now on Solairedirect intends to get involved in the early stages of the building cycle both to reduce the cost of installing the photovoltaic panels and make solar energy accessible to the greatest number of people.
Furthermore, with this same goal in mind, Solairedirect has set up strategic partnerships in both the new build and retrofit sectors to position itself as the photovoltaic partner for building professionals via its subsidiary SDDirectPro.
Solairedirect has also created innovative rental packages (“SD Home Solutions”), providing practical solutions to professional expectations in the new build and retrofit sectors as well as for consumers in the field of photovoltaic power and, in this way, make it possible to achieve energy efficient buildings that comply with low energy building regulations.
For professionals in the building sector, Solairedirect provides personalised support via technical and commercial training courses, onsite support for the initial installation and provides sales support tools as well as a dedicated customer service hotline.
For individual customers, Solairedirect provides a remote monitoring system, the SD Box, which has become the reference in the industry, along with all the related operating services such as generation guarantees and the alert guarantee in case generation stops.
Large-scale solar energy
Solairedirect’s other focus areas for development is the installation of an integrated and competitive model of solar energy on a large scale to supply electricity at the market price while making it possible to increase land and property values.
BUILDING AND OPERATING
EPC: Engineering, Procurement and Construction
Solairedirect, one of the world’s leading solar companies, delivers turnkey solar farms, including:
- Carrying out engineering assessment (validates the design) and selects contractors
- Handling all grid connection procedures
- Executing the construction plan according to a fixed price
- Supervising all key steps, including testing and commissioning procedures
- Providing a comprehensive set of guarantees (penalties, price adjustment mechanism, equipment guarantees…) and taking out insurance to cover the entire construction phase, as well as the solar farm’s useful life.
In addition, it provides a 2 year system guarantee and a 1 year system performance guarantee, via monitoring.
O&M: Operation and Maintenance
Optimising our clients’ long term solar power generation is one of Solairedirect’s founding principles. Operating the facilities is one of the keystones of its commitment. Solairedirect assists each and every one of its clients during and after installation of their solar energy systems, regardless of their size.
Solairedirect is mandated by the owner to:
- Supervise the solar plant construction and operation for a 2-year period starting from delivery date via a construction-operation contract.
- Operate and provide maintenance services for an 18-year period, starting from the expiry date of the construction-operation contract via a construction-maintenance contract.
These contracts include:
- Correction of faults under guarantee (Performance guarantee)
- Performance validation (Monitoring of the performance ratio)
- System management
- Preventive maintenance of the equipment installed at the off-site centres involved in the operations
- Day-to-day maintenance (removing vegetation, cleaning the panels, etc)
- Damage repair
- Spare part supply management
- Regulatory compliance upgrades as necessary
- Administrative and Financial management
- Continuous System Monitoring and verification
