Solar Inspection · Kenya & Africa
Thermal imaging for solar performance
Detect failed strings, hotspots, and diode faults before they cost you output. precision thermography flown across six African countries.
Detect failed strings, hotspots, and diode faults before they cost you output. precision thermography flown across six African countries.
Utility-scale PV plants routinely lose 5–15% of output to defects invisible from the ground: failed strings, bypassed diodes, hotspots, PID. Aerial thermography finds them all - fast, safely, and with GPS coordinates for every fault.
Every module is captured in both spectrums. Thermal reveals the electrical signature of failure; RGB confirms physical causes like soiling, cracking, or vegetation shading. Together they turn "output is down" into a repair work order.
We fly to exacting thermography specification - sub-2cm/px GSD with 70/30 overlap - and deliver into analysis platforms your O&M team can work in directly: anomaly registers, severity classes, estimated losses, and punch lists.
Flying a solar survey in Kenya is one thing. Flying compliant surveys in DRC, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Rwanda in a single campaign is what we're built for.
Our lead pilot travels with the equipment; a locally licensed pilot joins at every site for full in-country regulatory compliance.
Sub-2cm/px GSD, 70/30 overlap, solar-noon flight windows, calibrated thermal payloads - the standard asset owners and lenders recognise.
Clear pricing: drone services, regulatory and local compliance, logistics, and accommodation - quoted per site, per country, no surprises.
~45+ hectares per flight day. From 5 MWp rooftops to 200+ MWp utility plants, the campaign plan is built around your site.
Annual or semi-annual thermal audits catch degradation early and keep production at contract levels.
Independent condition assessment before acquisition or refinancing - know exactly what you're buying.
Output down and inverter data inconclusive? A thermal pass localises the problem to the module.
Baseline surveys at handover and documented evidence for warranty claims against suppliers.
Thermal shows you where a module is failing. Electroluminescence (EL) shows you why. In partnership with Quantified Labs, we fly autonomous drone EL campaigns that reveal microcracks, PID, and cell defects invisible to thermal imaging: the factory gold-standard test, performed in the field.
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