Lifecycle Quality Best Practice Guidelines

Any project needs to have the right mix of skills amongst its personnel to carry out the required work at every stage. The solar industry benefits from a wide range of skills and experience. Team members with electrical, mechanical, financial, business and communications skills are required to handle different tasks and all of them strengthen the positive impact of the service provision.

These guidelines propose two skills matrices that can be found in the annexes. The first (annex A) maps the necessary skills through the different phases of a project’s lifecycle and encompasses the skills needed by EPC, O&M, and any other sub-contracted service providers. The second matrix (annex B) focuses on the Asset Manager’s role as they are present throughout the lifecycle and have different responsibilities to other service providers. This does not exclude AM, EPC, and O&M activities being done by the same, vertically integrated company and the two matrices can be used alongside each other.