O&M
AI Thermal Inspection and Spot Cleaning for Utility-Scale Solar
How AI-assisted drone thermography finds PV hotspots, diode and string faults, and why fast spot cleaning and repair protect yield, safety and warranty claims.
12 min read
Ozan Mehmet Eder
Electrical Project Manager, PMP
Utility-scale solar PV
Budapest, Hungary
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Ozan Mehmet Eder is a PMP-certified electrical project manager in Budapest. Since 2015 he has worked on utility-scale solar PV in Hungary and Turkey, from development and EPC management to O&M and asset management: more than 5 GWp evaluated, more than 1 GWp delivered and 170 MWp under asset management today. He writes about the electrical and engineering decisions that decide what a plant earns over its life.
On cable trenches
“The cheapest trench is cheap only on the day it is backfilled.”
- Role
- Electrical project manager, PMP
- Based in
- Budapest, Hungary
- Works on
- Utility-scale solar PV in Hungary and Turkey
- In solar since
- 2015
The trackrecord.
01
Due diligence
5GWp+
Projects evaluated
Technical due diligence, PV system design and energy yield assessment.
02
Development
1,060MWp
Developed to construction
Development and pre-construction: 990 MWp in Hungary across 15 locations and 70 MWp in Turkey.
03
Construction
210MWp
Built and commissioned
Including a 140 MWp plant at a single location, finished two months ahead of schedule.
04
Operation
170MWp
Under asset management
Operating plants: O&M oversight, performance monitoring and optimization.
05
Pre-construction
900MWp+
Pipeline coordinated
Pre-construction coordination and EPC and O&M contract negotiations.
Writing ontopics.
- 01Articles →
electrical design
DC cabling, insulation faults and the installation choices that set a plant's lifetime cost.
- 02Articles →
design and yield
Layouts, DC/AC ratios and trackers: the decisions that fix yield and CAPEX before construction starts.
- 02Articles →
O&M
Thermal inspection, cleaning and the O&M work that keeps a plant at its designed output.
- 01Articles →
asset management
Availability, KPIs and where the line between O&M contractor and asset manager should run.
Latestarticles.
All articlesElectrical design
DC String Cable Installation: Burial, Conduit or Drainage Pipe
Direct burial, closed conduit or perforated drainage pipe for PV string cables: how each handles water, rodents and pulling tension, plus a QA checklist.
12 min read
Design and yield
Fixed Tilt vs Single-Axis Tracker: Why Yield Math Is Not Enough
How price shape, Hungary's METÁR premium, land and grid limits, terrain and O&M capability decide between fixed-tilt and single-axis tracker solar plants.
12 min read
O&M
Module Cleaning Cost-Benefit Analysis for EU Utility-Scale Solar
How to tell when a whole-plant module cleaning pays for itself, using soiling data, cleaning cost, realized power prices and a simple break-even formula.
12 min read
Asset management
Solar O&M vs Asset Management: Where the Boundary Should Be
Where solar O&M ends and asset management begins: scope split, KPIs, availability guarantees, conflicts of interest and a boundary table for utility-scale PV.
12 min read
Design and yield
Utility-Scale Solar Design Optimization for Yield and CAPEX
How DC/AC ratio, row spacing, terrain, site surveys and module test data set the yield and CAPEX of a solar park, with a checklist of levers to simulate.
12 min read
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