India Infrastructure Research has released the "Future of Solar O&M in India 2018" research report.

The report will cover information on the following areas:

• Market Size by Segment
• O&M Evolution
• Emerging Role of Energy Storage
• Solar O&M Cost Trajectory (2012-18)
• Cost Breakup Analysis
  • vehicles and logistics
  • equipment and tools
  • overheads, personnel/manpower, digital

• Cost Projections (2019-24)
  • business model evolution and key cost considerations
  • impact of scale and impact of energy storage
  • future cost estimates

• Emerging O&M Business Models
• Terms of O&M Contracts
• Grid Management by O&M Players
• O&M Company Profiles (5-8 profiles of key O&M players in India)
• Digitisation and Automation at Plant Level
  • emerging role, applications and use case for the following: manpower and material management, automated monitoring and big data analytics, Robotics, etc
  • growing role of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications
  • AI field assistants and predictive analytics
  • key technology providers
  • industry perspective (views of key personnel from the solar O&M industry and technology providers on the growing role of AI, robotics and data analytics)

• Key Challenges, Best Practices and Case Studies
• Projected O&M Market Size (from 2019-20 to 2024-25)

The report is priced at Rs 60,000 (plus 18% GST) or USD 1416 and is available in a PDF format.