Field services for utility-scale solar
A solar farm is an array, a few hundred acres of land, a track network, a welfare compound and a switchroom. We look after all five — on one contract, with one supervisor and one monthly report.
Core scope
Plus 46 supporting services across the same site — listed in full below.
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Enabling works, vegetation and long-term site care.
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Cut on a growing-season cycle, arisings cleared.
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Logged by block and row, every cycle.
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Our crews, our plant. Nothing brokered on.
The site, zone by zone
Most farms buy cleaning from one contractor, cutting from a second, groundworks from a third, cabins from a fourth and switchgear from a fifth — then spend the month coordinating them. Pick a zone to see what we cover there.
Everything above the ground line: modules, glass, cabling and the frames holding it up. This is where output is won back.
Several hundred acres of it. Left alone, growth shades the bottom row — and the biodiversity commitments in your planning consent quietly go unmet.
Tracks, trenches, drainage and fence line. Built at construction, then worn down by every heavy vehicle and every wet winter that follows.
Where the site team actually works. Supplied as finished container units, craned in and connected — not built from scratch on your critical path.
Switchgear, protection and everything downstream of the string. Supplied, replaced and maintained by people who are on the same site every week anyway.
Services
Four services are what most farms call us in for. The rest are what we end up doing once we're already on site every week — priced per module, per acre, per metre or per unit, on a fixed schedule.
Core
Scheduled cleaning cycles, block by block, logged as we go. Frequency set to your site's soiling rate, not a generic calendar.
Dry rotary systems for sites with limited water or restricted discharge.
Infrared flyover to locate hotspots, dead strings and cracked cells.
String-level measurement to separate soiling loss from real faults.
Removal, handling and swap of cracked or degraded modules, with serial records.
Re-torquing, clamp checks, alignment and tracker greasing.
Connector re-crimping, cable dressing and junction box repair.
Core
Cut on a growing-season cycle so growth never reaches the bottom row. Arisings cleared, not left piled under the tables.
Targeted treatment by PA-certificated operators, with COSHH records.
Boundary hedges trimmed outside nesting season, laid or coppiced as needed.
New planting to meet landscape and screening conditions, with aftercare.
Margins, meadow mixes, hibernacula and bird and bat boxes.
Delivery and monitoring against your BNG plan, with evidence for the reports.
Surveys, sward assessment and grazing or cutting regimes that actually suit the site.
Japanese knotweed, ragwort and thistle. Treatment plans, follow-up visits and the records your landlord and insurer ask for.
Burrowing under pile foundations and rodents chewing DC cable — dealt with before it costs you a string.
Sheep grazing agreements, stock fencing, water and welfare checks where grazing beats cutting.
Stone tracks, passing places and inverter hardstanding — built to take a low loader in February, not just a van in June.
Trenching, ducting, bedding sand, warning tape and backfill to spec.
Swales, culverts, headwalls and refilling washouts around pile foundations.
Deer, stock and security mesh fencing; gates, posts and boundary repair.
Regrading, topsoil replacement and seeding after works or cable pulls.
Keeping mud off the public highway, plus scrap and packaging clearance.
Excavators, dumpers and telehandlers with operators; low-loader transport.
Washouts, blocked culverts, fallen trees and damaged fencing cleared after a named storm.
Core
Site offices, control rooms, mess rooms, drying rooms, security cabins and stores. Built off site, delivered finished and set on your base.
Towable and static welfare, chemical and mains toilets, on service contract.
Partitions, furniture, racking and extra sockets; lifting units as the site changes.
Bowsers, storage tanks, pumps and waste tank servicing.
Extinguishers, signage, first aid and spill kits, with refill schedules.
Gate cabins, CCTV towers and SIA-licensed guards on shift rosters.
Compound and gate lighting, plus generator or battery backup.
Towers, perimeter detection and monitored alarms. Cable theft is the most expensive thing that happens to a solar farm.
Core
Supply and replacement of DC and AC switching, protection and surge devices — recognised makes, with test certificates and warranty papers.
String combiner boxes and DC boards: assembly, rewiring or replacement.
Filter cleaning, fan checks, torque checks and support for firmware visits.
Oil checks, bushing cleaning, relay testing and breaker servicing.
Pit testing, resistance measurement, tape repair and arrester checks.
Cable glanding, lug crimping and infrared scanning of boards under load.
Held stock of fast-moving spares, so a failed switch isn't a week of downtime.
Periodic inspection and EICR reporting to BS 7671, with any remedial works priced off the same visit.
Half-hourly metering, meter operator and data collection appointments, and settlement queries chased on your behalf.
Authorised Person cover for HV switching, permits to work and safe access to the substation.
Six things that don't belong to any one zone — they apply to the whole asset, from handover to decommissioning.
A number that gets answered out of hours and a crew that can be on site the same day.
Groundworks, compound, fencing and vegetation for co-located BESS, on the same contract as the array.
Portal checks, alarm triage and a monthly report that ties output back to what we did on site.
Independent walk-downs at handover and before the defects period closes, with a priced snag list.
Module swaps at scale, removal, WEEE-compliant panel recycling and land reinstatement.
Comms faults, dataloggers, gateways and sensor replacement — the parts of the monitoring chain that fail in the field.
Asset registers, as-built mark-ups, test certificates and the evidence pack auditors ask for.
Our work
Where we work, what we were asked to do, and how long we've been doing it.
Example content. These three projects are invented to show the format. Replace them with real sites — and delete this notice — before publishing.
Marsh Lane Farm, Lincolnshire
Dust off the neighbouring arable land was costing the owner more than the cleaning contract. We moved the site onto a spring and late-summer cycle and targeted the bottom-edge banding doing most of the damage.
Oakhanger Down, Hampshire
Four kilometres of internal track had broken up and two culverts had silted shut. Rebuilt, re-stoned and re-drained in eight weeks, working around live inverter stations without a single shutdown.
Fenmoor Grange, Cambridgeshire
Six container units craned in and connected inside a week, alongside DC isolators and surge protection for the replacement combiner boxes. One supplier, one delivery window, one invoice.
Mobilisation
Counted back from the day the crew starts work on your site. Nothing on this list happens after mobilisation — it all happens before it.
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We walk the blocks, count modules and tables, check the water source, track access and where a cabin can actually be craned in.
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Written scope, cycle frequency, crew size and fixed rates per module, per acre, per metre and per unit. No cycle-by-cycle renegotiation.
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Risk assessment and method statement, PPE list, isolation and permit-to-work procedure, agreed with your safety lead before anyone is on site.
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Trained crew, supervisor, tools, brushes, bowser and consumables arrive and are inducted to your site rules.
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Work starts block by block with the supervisor present. Completion logged against block and row from the first day.
Monthly
Cycle map, photographs, open snags and next month's plan — one document, one meeting.
How we work
A named site supervisor on the ground and a single account manager above them. You never chase five vendors to find out who was on site yesterday.
Our crews, our plant, our supervision. What you're quoted is what turns up, rather than a margin added to somebody else's day rate.
Every cycle is recorded against the block and row it covered, with dates and photographs. You can audit what was done without taking our word for it.
Per module, per acre, per metre, per unit. Agreed at the start of the contract and held for its term, so your O&M budget doesn't move every month.
Accredited
Certificates and insurance details go out with every tender return. Ask and we'll send the current set the same day.
Request a site visit
Send the site location and capacity and we'll survey it at no cost, then come back with a written scope and a rate schedule. If you already have a tender document, send that instead.
