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Designs on quality O&M

March 2, 2017
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By Emanuele Tacchino, Emanuele Tacchino is a business development manager in the Western Europe and Middle East division of Alectris. He has over a decade of experience in solar PV project management, dealing with PV projects or plant transactions and involving the development, construction and operation of PV plants

O&M | Operations and maintenance has traditionally been thought of as something that happens after a PV power plant has been built and connected. But as Emanuele Tacchino writes, planning for the successful operation of a project, particularly a new PV market, begins long before construction.

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