String faults caught inside a billing cycle
Quarterly walk-through inspection of a 90 MW field meant string faults could run for eleven weeks before detection. Each undetected string is measurable lost revenue, and the inspection itself took two people four days.
- 11 wk → 4 wk
- Worst-case fault dwell time
- 8 person-days
- Saved per inspection cycle
- ±2 °C
- Radiometric accuracy