Security for Renewable Energy Power Plants – CO3 @ CliDemy

Conventional power plants – coal, natural gas, hydroelectric – are large, centralized structures with heavy machineries and equipment. These are hardly stuff that one can expect to be stolen – can you imagine someone trying to lift off a 10,000 ton boiler from a coal power plant!

Renewable energy power plants – especially solar power plants – are quite the opposite. Each solar panel weighs only about 25 Kg and there could tens of thousands of them in even a moderate capacity solar power plant.

A good quality solar panel can fetch a decent price!

Add to these the fact that many solar power plants now also have started including batteries, typically Li-ion batteries – which can also fetch a good price – and you have a nice treasure awaiting burglars.

This challenge also means a nice little business opportunity for those who could provide on-site and remote security & monitoring services for these power plants!