A presentation on the Technical Paper accepted at NTPC's O&M Conference, Indian Power Stations (IPS) 2016, 13th February 2016, New Delhi - 'Continuous Improvement of Solar PV Plants with Innovative and New Practices' based on the experience of performance monitoring with ACTIS - the world's first Solar ERP software by Alectris, Greece. The presentation was made by DV Satya Kumar, MD, Shri Shakti Alternative Energy Ltd, the Partner for ACTIS in India.
Continuous improvement concept is very much part of many existing industries and utilities and is called Deming's wheel or Kaizen approach. But the concept is new to Solar O&M industry and has been made easy through continuous and close performance monitoring with ACTIS software and data loggers which provide in-depth analysis and reports compared to a SCADA system, leading to interventions that improve the plant performance. Performance improvement is possible in any of the three categories of plants, defined herein, wherein the effort required versus the performance improvement achieved vary based on the baseline level performance of the plant before deployment of ACTIS and continuous improvement approach.
