Labour costs, above all, tip the balance between a project that stacks up financially and one that doesn't, between careful work and rushed work. That's why autonomous robotic assembly systems topped the agenda at The smarter E Europe this year. Human hands and human judgement are still needed, just differently than before.
At the threshold from workshop to industry
Suppliers to the project business are adapting accordingly. DC and AC connection assemblies, cabling, and the often-underrated small parts now arrive pre-configured and ready for the site, built to the specifications of developers and investors and packed in convenient batch sizes.
This is how industrialisation is entering a process that, until recently, still relied heavily on manual labour: the installation and commissioning of solar projects. The industry stands at the threshold from workshop to industry, ready to plan, build and operate solar parks anywhere in the world to a consistently high standard, with standardised components and standardised processes.
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