Testing connections, torque, and module condition costs real production when a site is running at full summer output — which is exactly why it keeps getting postponed. Fall and winter remove that cost. Here's why the off-season is actually the best time of year to do thorough PV electrical and structural inspection work, and what a proper off-season inspection should cover.

Your monitoring system tells you the site is down 4% — it doesn't tell you which of 30,000 modules is the problem. Thermal imaging does. Here's what an infrared PV inspection actually finds on a utility-scale solar farm, and why the issues it catches rarely show up in SCADA data until they've already cost you.