Besides continuous surveillance of their solar panels using sensors, Phoenix Solar sometimes utilises microcopters for thermographic monitoring (Photo: dpa)
If you think that monitoring solar energy plants has to be boring, you should talk to employees of Phoenix Solar. They had to discover that solar modules and copper wires are not only an essential element of renewable energies, but can also appeal to a very different kind of “customer”.
Fortunately the operating company of the La Solana solar plant had had just installed security cameras on its premises. Therefore everyone in security headquarters could observe the dark figures jumping off a truck and starting to climb the fence and start their raid. But thanks to the surveillance system the employee in charge was able to contact the local security service. When they noticed the guards, the would-be robbers fled the scene.
Unfortunately the burglars could neither be identified nor arrested. But hopefully they will now keep in mind that PV systems are not as easy a prey as they thought.
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