RaptorCon 26: Changing the O&M Paradigm (Cleanleaf Energy)

Legacy O&M methods are undergoing a paradigm shift as robotics automate routine preventive tasks and redirect human expertise toward critical corrective actions. Cleanleaf Energy walks through their deployment of Sentry, Raptor Maps' autonomous drone-in-box solution, at one of their 100-megawatt sites in Georgia.

The conversation covers how Cleanleaf evaluated their preventative maintenance scope to identify where autonomous drones could meaningfully reduce labor strain, what the early operational impact has looked like, and what it unlocks for technicians whose time is stretched thin as solar capacity scales faster than the labor force.