Carolina Solar Services provides practical experience and manpower to solve problems and revive an underperforming solar farms.
Established 2014 and is the southeast’s largest independent solar operations and maintenance provider. CSS services over 100 sites across the United States and has >600 megawatts (MW) under management.
- Field Maintenance
- Remote operations & analysis
- Engineering
- Special projects services
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Carolina Solar Services provides
practical experience and manpower
to solve problems and revive an
underperforming solar farms.
Established 2014 and is the southeast’s largest independent solar operations and maintenance provider. CSS services over 100 sites across the United States and has >600 megawatts (MW) under management.
- Field Maintenance
- Remote operations & analysis
- Engineering
- Special projects services
ABOUT CAROLINA SOLAR SERVICES
ABOUT CAROLINA
SOLAR SERVICES
Years of Experience:
10 Years
Ongoing O&M:
760 MW
Remote Monitoring:
576 MW
Full Time Staff:
53 Employees
Geographic Presence:
2 locations in Oregon and 6 locations
in North Carolina serving OR, NC, SC,
GA, FL, VA & TN
OEM Brands Served:
Siemens, TMEIC, SMA, Sungrow,
Chint, Power Electronics,
Solectria, ABB, Advanced Energy,
Huawei, Schneider, Eaton, FTC,
Nextracker, GameChange, SEL
Years of Experience:
10 Years
Ongoing O&M:
760 MW
Remote Monitoring:
576 MW
Full Time Staff:
53 Employees
Geographic Presence:
2 locations in Oregon and 6 locations
in North Carolina serving OR, NC, SC,
GA, FL, VA & TN
OEM Brands Served:
Siemens, TMEIC, SMA, Sungrow,
Chint, Power Electronics,
Solectria, ABB, Advanced Energy,
Huawei, Schneider, Eaton, FTC,
Nextracker, GameChange, SEL
O+M SERVICE OFFERINGS
Commissioning & Owners Representation
CSS brings an unbiased perspective to owners' interest through periodic inspections throughout the construction and on behalf of owners requiring close monitoring of the construction and close-out phases.
UAV Services
CSS has FAA-licensed drone pilots on staff who can perform visual and infra-red imagery to locate underperforming equipment in a quick and efficient manner using our patented data analysis process.
Vegetation Management
CSS teams ensure site vegetation is managed to ensure energy production is not impacted by shading due to plant growth. This is done through year-round multiple scheduled visits to mow and clean sites.
Electrical Maintenance
OEM and industry best practices scheduled maintenance of electrical equipment.
Medium Voltage Testing
CSS owns and operates a TRAX Megger Transformer and Substation Test System with a wide range of applications such as turns ratio, excitation current, winding and contact resistance, impedance, tan delta/power factor testing and various primary tests for LV, MV and HV electrical apparatus.
Performance Engineering
CSS engineers monitor performance, process alarms, remotely troubleshoot inverter, relay, and communication equipment, configure and troubleshoot SCADA systems, provide support for field teams and field questions from clients from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm EST 7 days a week.
Livestock Management
For select clients, sheep are rotationally grazed on site to safely and sustainably manage vegetation, reducing mowing needs and sequestering carbon in the soil.
TECHNICAL SERVICES
3rd Party Support
- Site Construction Audits
- Quality Control and Quality Assurance
- Engineering document review
- Strategic O&M consulting
- Owner’s Representation
- Power Quality Meter dispatching
- Original Equipment Manufacturer review
Equipment Thermal IR Imaging
- Back-of-module imaging
- Combiner Box imaging
- Inverter imaging (residual heat images)
- Transformer imaging (residual heat)
MV Testing
- Transformer IRT and turns-ratio testing
- MV cable testing
- Transformer DGA sample and analysis
Performance Engineering
- Performance Testing
- Availability testing, Capacity testing & Acceptance testing
- Underperformance analysis
- System optimization
- PVSyst modelling
UAV Drone
- IR Thermal Imaging
- Aerial imaging during construction
DAS/SCADA Integration
- Remote operations testing
- DAS/SCADA installation
- Point mapping
- Potential Transducer (PT) install
- Current Transducer (CT) install
- Relay Commissioning – SEL
Cold Commissioning
- Visual inspection
- Detailed reporting
- Pre-commissioning inspections
Hot Commissioning
- IVCT
- VOCs
- IRT
- Continuity testing
- Inverter commissioning
- OEM Authorized Service Partner - TMEIC, Siemens Gamesa, SunGrow
Site Close Out
- Punchlist closeout
- Post-construction Warranty Support