Portfolio-Wide Thermal Inspection Across a Multi-Gigawatt Solar Fleet

A solar independent power producer operates 40 sites across three states, each inspected manually on an annual cycle by walking crews.

How the work runs

The pressure that made this worth automating, the steps the system runs, and what came out the other side.

Pressure & Trigger Points

Annual manual inspection means a defect can degrade output for eleven months before anyone sees it.
Each site produces its own folder of findings, so nobody can compare defect rates across the fleet.
Crews walk rows in high heat, which limits how much of a site is genuinely inspected.

The run · 5 operational steps

Click any step to inspect telemetry signals, model reasoning, and governance gates.

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Drone-borne thermal and visual imagery is captured per site on a repeatable flight plan.

Input Signal:

Real-time operational telemetry & queue

Reasoning Pattern:

MCP grounded vector inference

Governance Gate:

Policy constrained with audit write-back

Verified Business Outcomes

Inspection cadence changed from annual walking crews to repeatable aerial capture.
Findings ranked by production impact rather than by discovery order.
Fleet-wide defect patterns visible instead of forty separate site folders.

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