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
