Airtouch Solar announced signing of a $4 million contract with India based Acme Group for the supply and maintenance of robotic water-free cleaning systems for PV solar panels. The scope of work includes sales, supply, installation, operation, and maintenance of cleaning robots for Acme’s solar plant in Rajasthan.
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The use of robotic cleaning solutions is gradually gaining traction and will become more cost effective as project sizes grow larger. Utility-scale developers and operators of solar parks prefer automated cleaning solutions since the expense of manual labour for cleaning panels increases with the project size. It might take some time before robotic cleaning totally replaces manual cleaning due to the low labour costs in some regions, but as the cost of these solutions falls, more developers are opting to use this innovative technology.
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Israeli robotic solar cleaning service provider, Airtouch Solar, has completed an initial public offering to raise $18 million at a company post-money valuation of $124 million. The shares were purchased primarily from leading institutional investors in the Israeli capital market. Airtouch Solar estimates that the target market for robotic cleaning solutions is worth about $11 billion as only 5 per cent of solar installations in the world operate using robotic cleaning solutions.
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