Solar PV Thermal Drone Inspection
Drones - the latest weapon in the battle to make solar super-efficient?
They seem to be popping up everywhere these days.
Companies such as Amazon have suggested the day may soon come when they are delivering your parcels.
They are also being used by militaries around the world. And you often see them whirring overhead at concerts or major events, capturing aerial footage of the crowds.
Drones have quickly become a staple of modern life, with innovators constantly looking at what they can be used for next.
Could they be the key to protecting and invigorating your Solar PV?
The next big solar innovation
A key aspect of the solar industry is that people place their panels in the place that best suits them.
For farms and commercial operations, this could be on the roof of barns or office blocks.
For those with large-scale operations, it could be on roaming hills, in the countryside, far away from the owner.
For panels on roofs, it has often needed scaffolding to allow us to inspect them, and then tackle issues – which can be expensive and often logistically difficult.
Those in the countryside can also prove tricky to keep a constant eye on, when they are far away from the owner’s home.
Also, when there is a huge number of them, as there are in many large-scale solar farms.
How drones can monitor Solar PV
At HIT Energy Services, we pride ourselves on being innovators who are constantly looking at ways to drive the industry forward.
Alongside our game-changing HIT Energy Guard monitoring technology, we have come up with a number of leading advances.
The infra-red capabilities of many drones are incredibly accurate in detecting things such as hot spots on panels.
These could help highlight potential fail spots.
Drone technology could be the key to maximising your gains.
“Making Solar PV as efficient as possible and generating as much energy as possible for you is a passion of ours,” said Simon Hopkins of HIT Energy Services.
“We want to use every tool at our disposal in the pursuit of this.
“We are seeing drones being used for more and more everyday tasks, and they are now becoming incredibly intelligent, so we believe they are an obvious solution for some of the most difficult issues associated with solar.”
