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Power Plant Services

Be flexible with Schneider Electric Solar Services contracts

Flexibility

The contracts we offer allow you to select several levels of key performance indicators:

Availability guarantee
Response time
Time to fix
First time fix rate (FTFR)
Spare parts availability

Services are designed for the following utility-scale inverters:

Conext SmartGen™ Power System (SPS): NA + IEC versions
Central inverters
Conext SmartGen™ series
Conext™ XC series
Conext™ GT series

Long-term Contracts

Choose the option you prefer with a long-term contract to secure and sustain your assets throughout their lifecycle or with an on-demand service to match specific needs.

On-demand Services

We can support you whenever you need through the following services:

  • Spare parts: Easy access to spare parts is a key requirement when you are looking to maximize the uptime of your PV power plant from both and availability and budgetary perspective.
  • Commissioning: Schneider Electric has already commissioned over 10 GW of inverters for PV power plants so we have the experience you would expect from a trusted partner.
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance: if you like flexibility but still want to benefit from our expertise and support; our customer care centers around the world are here to respond to your request and plant on-site intervention as needed.
  • Audits (inverter and site): to ensure the efficiency of your plant, our expert teams could bring you support to realize accurate diagnosis.
  • Schneider University: we train our field technicians for operational excellence in our worldwide competence centers.
  • On-site technical support: our global footprint with local experts are available to fix your technical issues on-site

Safety is our Priority

We ensure our experts have a full knowledge of safety rules

Sophisticated LOTO (Lockout-Tagout)

  • No live work allowed: Multiple LOTO points to isolate specific areas, creating a way to work on the inverter without full PPE Ability to access certain areas of the inverter without shutting down operation of the complete skid
  • Opening critical cabinet doors will trigger the inverter to stop power production

Access control

  • Password protection controls the access rights of users and field service engineers: All information is pushed to the Cloud for remote diagnosis and degradation monitoring (if the system is connected to the Cloud).
  • A safety form to ensure safe situations on site
Compliance with standards

For Conext SmartGen™ inverters

  1. Standard IEC 62271-202: High-voltage switchgear and control gear – Part 202: High-voltage/ low-voltage prefabricated substation.
  2. Standard IEC 62271-200: High-voltage switchgear and control gear – Part 200: AC metal-enclosed switchgear and control gear for rated voltages above 1 kV and up to and including 52 kV.
  3. UL 1741 V/f abnormality and HiPot test.
  4. CSA C22.2 107.1 HiPot test.

For Conext™ PV Box

  1. Standard IEC 62271-202: High-voltage switchgear and control gear – Part 202: High-voltage/ low-voltage prefabricated substation.
  2. Standard IEC 62271-200: High-voltage switchgear and control gear – Part 200: AC metal-enclosed switchgear and control gear for rated voltages above 1 kV and up to and including 52 kV.
  3. Sandard IEC 61439: Low-voltage switchgear and control gear assemblies.
  4. Standard IEC 60076: Power transformers – Part 1: General.
  5. Standard EN779:2012 -> Particulate air filters for general ventilation – Determination of the filtration performance.