Scottish Water has awarded a contract for solar Photovoltaic (PV) servicing and maintenance services worth an estimated £1.5 million to Glasgow-based firm Absolute Solar and Wind Ltd.
The contract covers services for the operation, servicing, reactive maintenance and capital maintenance of Scottish Water Energy Team’s suite of solar PV power assets.
Under the contract services Absolute Solar and Wind Ltd wil be required to provide include:
- cleaning services of the PV panels
- ability to operate the assets
- servicing of the assets
- delivering planned (ie capital) and reactive MEICA maintenance of assets and component parts
- produce inspection and servicing reports and asset condition reports
- root cause analysis and investigation of any failures
- ability to maximise generation and asset availability
Initial contract term is three years with up to five years further extension options.
Scottish Water has a portfolio of more than 76 water and waste water treatment works which are now either self-sufficient or partly sufficient in generating their own power requirements.
In March Scottish Water unveiled plans to install its most ambitious solar energy scheme to date at a water treatment works in East Dunbartonshire. The £3 million investment by Scottish Water Horizons, the utility’s commercial subsidiary, will see 8,620 ground-mounted solar PV panels installed at Balmore Water Treatment Works in Torrance – one of its most energy intensive assets.
In April it also installed an additional 516 solar PV panels at its waste water treatment works in St Andrews