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Utility-scale

Thousands of acres, measured rather than sampled

Pre-construction survey and terrain, construction monitoring, and full-array thermal and electroluminescence inspection with module-level defect location.

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Full arrayNot a sample
Module-levelDefect location
50,000+Surveys delivered
7 yrsNationwide

You can only manage what you can actually see

At a thousand acres, walking the array is not a plan. A two-person crew with a clipboard covers a fraction of a percent of the modules in a day, and whatever they do not reach is assumed healthy. Most utility-scale underperformance is not a mystery, it is unmeasured.

1

Terrain drives the design

Grading, drainage and slope decide pile depth, tracker row geometry and how much earthwork the project carries. Getting it from imagery is how budgets move after financial close.

2

Defects compound quietly

A string out at 2% loss is invisible in monthly production data and obvious in a thermal orthomosaic. Across a year it is real revenue.

3

Warranty windows close

Module defects are recoverable while the warranty is live and yours forever after. A commissioning baseline is what makes a claim provable.

What we run at scale

Pre-construction

Boundary and topographic survey of the site, with LiDAR-derived terrain where the ground warrants it. Slope, drainage and access captured for the civil design rather than estimated. Detail on the land surveying page.

Construction monitoring

Periodic aerial capture across the build, so progress, pile placement and tracker alignment are measured against the design instead of reported against it.

Commissioning baseline

Full-array aerial thermal and electroluminescence at energisation. Every module inspected, not a sample. This is the document that makes a warranty claim provable, and the point at which defects are still the EPC's to fix.

Operating inspection

Recurring thermal and electroluminescence sweeps with module-level defect classification and location, so O&M gets a work order rather than a heat map. More on inspection.

What comes back

Survey and terrain

  • Boundary and topographic survey
  • LiDAR-derived terrain model where the ground warrants it
  • Slope and drainage analysis
  • Access routes and laydown areas
  • Existing easements and encroachments, located
  • Geolocated orthomosaic of the site

Inspection output

  • Full-array thermal orthomosaic, every module
  • Electroluminescence for cell-level cracking
  • Defect classification by type and severity
  • Module-level location, down to the row and position
  • Tracker and row alignment against design
  • Comparison against the commissioning baseline

One capture standard, every scale

The discipline that makes a 1,800 square foot roof survey repeatable is the same one that makes a 40-acre field repeatable: the capture is a fixed spec, so the failure mode is not a bad image but a missing measurement, and a spec removes it. Nationwide, across more than 50,000 surveys and seven years.

Talk through a site

Bring an array that is underperforming and we will tell you what a full sweep would show.

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