Today in many places is Saint Nicholas'eve when by tradition children and adults received gifts. Doesn't matter where you come from, we all love occasions to receive gifts. What do you wish to get in Solar this year? Write a comment and share with the community.

@Stefan Wippich mentioned the urgency for considering repowering to become a daily bread for many of us. My thoughts are going a step further though. The growth of obsolete modules and other PV equipment will be as exponential as the industry itself. Despite I see more and more talks and initiatives related to this topic, I can´t resist to think about what the future will be like in 2030 and later on. I don´t want to be the messenger of bad news. However! It might happen that we will be remembering the troubles with PET bottles with nostalgia, in comparison with the PV module disposal. I am curious about your opinions.

Let me tell you about one of my most humbling moments in solar O&M. Back in 2021, I was managing an O&M service while also doing monitoring. During routine preventive maintenance, one of my technicians accidentally left 5 combiner boxes disconnected. Honestly? I get why it happened. Those boxes had the weirdest closing system, no LED indicators, and all the cables were buried. Easy mistake to make. But here's where it gets worse... The tech didn't check his work when he finished. I didn't verify it from the control room. We didn't even catch it in our end-of-month performance review. Two. Full. Months. It was only when I finally dug into the PR and energy performance index trends that I saw something was off. We pulled up the heat map and there it was—5 combiner boxes just sitting there, disconnected. Cue the emergency truck dispatch and some very awkward conversations. Here's what I learned (so you don't have to learn it the hard way): The real issue wasn't the technician's mistake. It was our process—or lack thereof. No combiner box monitoring. No systematic inverter comparison after maintenance. No immediate performance spot-checks. We got lucky. The PR impact was minimal. But that wake-up call changed everything about how we approach maintenance verification. Today, these mistakes don't happen anymore. Not because we became perfect, but because we built systems that catch human error before it costs time and money. What's your "oops, we missed that" moment? Share below—we're all learning together.

Hi everyone, In process industries, alarm management standards like ISA-18.2 and EEMUA-191 are used to avoid alarm floods and missed critical events. In utility-scale solar O&M/asset management, has anyone tried to apply any of these ideas formally? (e.g. an “alarm philosophy” document, alarm KPIs, rationalization workshops, shelving/suppression rules, etc.) What’s one practice that actually helped you reduce noise without missing important events?

Hello everyone, I would like to introduce myself as well. I am the CEO of WS Synergy BV, a company specialized in detecting faults in solar parks: Insulation faults Defective strings Burnt connectors We not only detect issues but also repair them. For the Dutch market, we perform Scope 12 repairs and issue repair statements. Additionally, we repair cable theft, replace defective panels, dismantle installations, and reinstall them. Where others stop, we go further and can often find the solution. Calin, thank you for opening this group. I hope to gain and share a lot of knowledge here, and advise or assist others whenever possible. If you have a problem, feel free to ask.