October 14, 2024 Partner Training

Why Surveys by Solar Surveyors Are Key to Superior Solar Systems: Insights from the Innasol Surveyor Network

On September 13th 2023, Innasol held its first Professional solar power Surveyor training event at GTG Edinburgh. This event is part of a groundbreaking initiative to upskill a network of surveyors to design and install highly-efficient commercial and residential solar power systems for their customers.

Surveying is the vital “first principle” of any solar installation project.

It enables you to design the best-performing solar power system for your customer’s needs: one that improves energy generation and reduces their expected return on investment period dramatically, all the while minimising your overheads by streamlining project delivery.

However, surveying is also a critically undervalued skill among installers and those training them, which results in underperforming systems, poorly managed projects, and an unjust picture of the true power of solar.

Surveying is an integral part of Innasol’s design-led solar power offer. To learn more about the role the Professional Surveyor Network will play in ensuring customers get the most out of their solar power systems, read on.

Innasol is developing these vital surveying skills among its certified partner network, an exclusive network of renewable energy specialists committed to designing and installing market-leading solar power systems. Find out more about becoming a certified partner.

What is the Professional Surveyor Network?

The Professional Surveyor Network, and the support it provides, will help more installers deliver better solar systems to more people throughout the UK.

Innasol already has an extensive network of certified partner installers across the UK. These partnerships give renewable energy specialists access to training, a vast commercial network and market-leading renewable energy systems – the benefits of which are passed on to their local customers.

Having worked extensively with these partners for several years, Innasol knows that they have transferable skills to design and install best-in-class solar power systems.

Through ongoing commercial support and a series of solar power surveyor training events, the Professional Surveyor Network will equip installers with surveying expertise and the means to reach customers interested in Innasol’s design-led solar power offer.

How important is surveying in solar power system design?

A solar power system is only as good as the information you have when designing it.

Solar is the most cost-effective source of energy available, even among renewables. However, for it to deliver cleaner energy at a lower cost for customers, the system must be tailored exactly to the individual circumstances of the customer.

This means understanding everything from their roof space and energy usage patterns to local climate conditions and even access issues that could add unnecessary costs when delivering parts and materials.

These can only be understood with a survey. Without surveying the site, not only will an installer design a sub-optimal system for their client – their project costs will increase needlessly, and they may even breach HSE safety legislation in the course of the project.

Why is Innasol committed to developing solar power surveying skills?

Innasol is committed to supporting its partners in delivering a cleaner, more cost-effective way for their customers to secure their supply of energy.

Solar has great potential to deliver energy security for businesses and homeowners up and down the country – however, that can only happen if solar power systems are designed well.

The surveying skills needed to make this a reality are seldom taught and under-valued – and yet, they are the starting point for any successful solar pannel installation.

Innasol is committed to developing the surveying skills of their partners because it produces benefits throughout the value chain:

Customers benefit when installers local to them have the skills to design and install cost-effective, high-performing solar power systems.
Installers benefit when they can manage projects with more reliable information, which reduces the overheads associated with procurement, design and installation.
Everyone benefits when more people have access to cleaner, more efficient and more secure ways of generating electricity.

If you have the skills to survey your client’s site, you will have the information you need to make better, more cost-effective decisions for your business and your customers.

Surveying underpins Innasol’s design-first philosophy. No two projects are the same, and since many factors affect how a solar power system with quality solar panels should be designed, understanding them lets installers design and deliver not only better systems, but also better projects.

With ongoing surveying and project support provided to installers by Innasol through the Professional Surveyor Network, local installers can design solar systems for customers that truly deliver everything they are capable of.

Learn more Innasol’s next training events for partners who are part of the Professional Surveyor Network. Learn more about Innasol’s free solar power surveying service.

Innasol Certified Partners

The Innasol Solar Professional Surveyor Network is exclusively available to Innasol’s network of certified partners.

Innasol Certified Partners are fully trained and accredited renewable energy specialists in charge of assessing, installing and maintaining the latest innovative renewable heating systems and efficient power solutions. Certification means each partner has made a special commitment to ensure they deliver the highest standards of service, which relies entirely on detailed customer feedback.

Learn more about Innasol’s Certified Partner network, and the benefits of joining, including project support, training and commercial opportunities.