The product cleans up to 45,000 solar panels in a 10-hour shift, reducing O&M costs and reducing about 75 of the water necessary for the task. In this case, a support wagon supplying water, electrical power and pressurised air ensures an independent operation. Some of these products such as the SunPower Oasis cleaning system are established solutions that automatically clean a solar panel string just by swiping across the modules with soft wet brushes. Nano material, better cleaning without water. The clip-type quick disassembly design can easily extend the battery life, and it only takes 1.5 hours to recharge. GEKKO Solar is also suited for small solar farms with narrow panels. A single robot is powered by 2 IFBOT-dedicated lithium batteries, which can keep the whole machine running for 4 hours without interruption.
There is a little trolley for water an energy supply with a hose of about 100 m in length.The GEKKO Solar is typically used together with a mobile work platform: from here, the operator can lift the robot comfortably to the roof and control it by radio using a joystick. Enel Green Power and REIWA are revolutionizing solar plant maintenance with SandStorm, an autonomous, sustainable robot for waterless solar panel cleaning.The GEKKO Solar cleans rigorously by rotating brushes, executing a constant pressure on the panels and the use of demineralised water.It's a good choice for extended roof top installations, where cleaning by hand is hardly feasible. Enel Green Power has conceived of a new robot that can clean solar panels without using any water. The robot cleaning efficiency reaches maximum up to 1'040 m 2 per hour and average cleaning efficiency reaches up to 670 m 2 per hour.
Therefore it's best suited for cleaning companies, offering their service to PV plant owners. It's compact and versatile and can easily be moved from one place to the other. The hardware of the solar panel cleaning robot is composed of a main frame, wheels. We are forced to ask ourselves if the cost to wash our panels. If a residential owner experiences 7 soiling loss annually on a 5-kW solar system in California, they will see about 65 lost over the course of the year.
The robot GEKKO Solar is designed to clean PV panels on roof tops and solar farms, which are difficult to access. We know that the economics of cleaning residential solar systems are not great. Greenleap Robotics has built the Lotus A4000 cleaning robot with automotive-grade components to serve as a reliable way to clean solar panels in arid regions.