The Journey of Commissioning a Large-scale Solar Plant and the Lessons Learnt: Role of Pre-commissioning Platform

Several large-scale solar plants have experienced significant commissioning delays due to a mismatch between the software model and on-site hardware response, sometimes even leading to project failures and bankruptcy. Typical response mismatch scenarios arise from inappropriate software modelling, incorrect responses from power quality meters, discretisation and sampling issues, communication delays, interoperability issues between multiple original equipment manufacturer (OEM) devices, etc. This paper discusses the journey of commissioning a large-scale solar plant using a pre-commissioning platform developed at the