Our Maintenance Services
Ongoing maintenance is a critical component to caring for any solar investment. Mountain Ridge Energy Service will work with owners and operators to alleviate work load, using their expertise to identify failures, potential problems, and most importantly- repair solutions. Maintenance packages are tailored to fit individual customer needs and equipment.
Standard Preventive Maintenance Package
- String Testing | Open Circuit Voltage (Voc) and Max Power Current (Imp) testing of all DC strings.
- Visual Inspection | Inspection of PV modules and array wiring, mounting system, combiner boxes, wireways and conduit, data acquisition system, weather sensors, security fence.
- Tracker PM | Lubrication, operational test per manufacturer’s specification.
- Inverter PM | Check connections, clean enclosure and filters, check operation per manufacturer’s specification.
- Switchgear and Transformer PM | Check connections, clean enclosure and filters, check operation.
- Combiner Boxes | Tighten loose connections, check fuses, clean enclosures.
- DAS/SCADA | Calibrate DAS/SCADA sensors.
- Array Cleaning | Clean all modules using water and soft brush.
- PM Report | Report of all PM activities performed and recommendations for future maintenance.
Inverter Maintenance
- Preventative Maintenance Inspection with report and plan for corrective action
Additional Preventive Maintenance Services
- I-V Curves | I-V curves on all or part of an array, at the module, string or combiner box level.
- Thermographic Inspection | Infrared inspection of modules and/or electrical enclosures, including inverter, switchgear, combiner boxes.
- Landscape Maintenance | Landscape maintenance of area around the array and associated equipment, including mowing weeding, clean-up, earth moving, tree work.