Description

In June 2018, SolarPower Europe and ASOLMEX signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore new business opportunities for solar companies in the European and Mexican solar markets. Operations and Maintenance has been identified as one of the key areas of cooperation in the agreement.

In this context SolarPower Europe and ASOLMEX with the support by the "Large Scale Solar Energy Program" of the German-Mexican organized a joint workshop on "O&M" Best Practices and Business Opportunities in Mexico exploring subjects such as: O&M in Europe and Mexico, bankability of solar power plants and O&M Services, best practices requirements in solar power plant operations, monitoring and module cleaning.

The Spanish-language Mexican edition of the O&M Best Practices Guidelines, is based on Version 2.0 of the O&M Best Practices Guidelines and addresses the specificities of the Mexican solar market. It was prepared in collaboration between SolarPower Europe and ASOLMEX and is supported by the “Large Scale Solar Energy Program” of the German-Mexican bilateral cooperation, implemented by the Mexican Secretariat of Energy (SENER) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

AGENDA
8:00 - 8:15	Registration and welcome coffee
Session 1: Introduction O&M in Europe and Mexico.
8:30 - 8:45	Overview presentation of the SolarPower Europe O&M Best Practices Guidelines	Máté Heisz Solar Power Europe
8:45 - 9:00	Utility-scale solar O&M in Mexico	Félix Arroyo Atlas Renewable Energy Mexico
9:00 - 9:15	O&M in distributed solar in Mexico	Arturo Duhart Asolmex
Session 2: Bankability of solar power plants and O&M Services
9:15 - 9:35	Risk mitigation, bankability and O&M	Nelsy Santiago, Ulrike Jahn TÜV Rheinland
9:35 - 9:55	Contractual framework for bankable O&M services	Neil Bautista BayWa r.e.
10:00 - 10:30	Panel discussion and Q&A What are the specificities of the Mexican O&M market and jurisdiction? Mexico in the "Install & Forget" phase?	Nelsy Santiago, TÜV Rheinland Neil Bautista, BayWay r.e. Jaime Martínez, Proyecto Terra Francisco Cervantes, Energon
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Session 3: Best practice requirements in solar power plant operations, maintenance, monitoring and module cleaning
11:00 - 11:20	Best Practices in Power Plant Operations and Power Plant Maintenance	Carlos Salas, Enel Green Power
11:20 - 11:40	Data & Monitoring requirements best practices and key performance indicators (KPIs)	Paul Nist QOS Energy
11:40 - 12:00	Module cleaning best practices	Steve Williams Clean Solar Solutions
12:00 - 12:30	Panel discussion How can the best practices be adapted to the Mexican marker? How are the monitoring solutions evolving to help the O&M market?	Carlos Salas, Enel Green Power Paul Nist, QOS Energy Steve Williams, Clean Solar Solutions Julian Willenbrock, Enlight Carla Ortiz, RER Energy
12:30 - 12:45	Closing remarks	Héctor Olea Aurélie Beauvais Joscha Rosenbusch

Presentations

The presentations of the workshop can be downloaded on the links below

^{_{Overview presentation of the SolarPower Europe O&M Best Practices Guidelines (SolarPower Europe)}}	Utility-scale solar O&M in Mexico (Atlas Renewable Energy Mexico)	_{^{O&M in distributed solar in Mexico (Asolmex)}}	Risk mitigation, bankability and O&M services (TÚV Rheinland)
Contractual framework for bankable O&M services (BayWay r.e.)	Best Practices in Power Plant Operations and Power Plant Maintenance (Enel Green Power)	Data & Monitoring best practices and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (QOS Energy)	Module cleaning best practices (Clean Solar Solutions)