Press Using drones in the solar industry both opens up new possibilities and replaces existing work. Without drones, inspections are typically completed manually.
For utility-scale solar farms, this means either traversing hundreds of acres and conducting the painstaking process of inspecting thousands of panels by hand, or, more commonly, inspecting only a sampling of panels in an effort to identify systemic issues. In some cases, high-cost inspections by small plane may be used.
Source: Drones in Solar Operations
