• 66 MW
• Boshof, South Africa
• Power 30 000 Homes

Boshof Solar Power is a 66 MW PV facility located about 10 km outside the town of Boshof in the Free State, on about 160 hectares of land. The plant uses 218 000 photovoltaic panels to produce approximately 132 GWh per year. This is enough energy to meet the annual needs of about 30 000 average South African homes

This is another project which has helped me gain knowledge in the renewable energy field. Some of the tasks I have undertaken at this site are:

• Managed, monitored and optimised maintenance systems and infrastructure 
• Facilitated and conducted workshops for the reviewing of asset care plans to ensure that the correct maintenance activities are carried out on plant equipment
• Optimised the maintenance plans to ensure that preventive maintenance activities are carried out thus reducing the frequency of corrective maintenance and thereby improving plant availibilty
• Ensured that all asset care plans are configured and generated within the CMMS (Computerised Maintenance Management System)
• Standardised the planning and scheduling of maintenance activities with other solar plants. Also ensured that the CMMS is used to plan tactical and non-tactical work
• Performed data quality inspections on work orders by reviewing work order feedback and ensuring that RCA’s (Root Cause Analysis) are conducted for critical assets
• Ensured that there is a comprehensive equipment register of all assets which is up to date with new acquisitions, disposals, all asset movements and asset information changes
• Developed the equipment tree for the solar plant
• Responsible for running the overall project of linking spares to objects in the equipment tree 
• Setting up the stores, cataloguing the materials master and establishing an opening stock take
• Identified critical spares and developed spare part strategies to ensure availability of spare parts for maintenance activities
• Reported on spare parts usage on a monthly basis
• Equipment Identification and Verification done on core equipment. This includes serial numbers, manufacturers and equipment specific ratings
• Ensured that all maintenance and spare part reports are generated within the CMMS and sent out to the relevant stakeholders on a weekly basis
• Provided training and support to all technical staff on the usage of the CMMS
• Supported all requests from staff around the CMMS: Asset Care Plan Changes, Equipment Register Changes, Maintenance plan updates, Rotable Management and System Administration (adding new users, changing roles and user rights)
• Performed data migration between 2 CMMS’s