Solar's Ultimate Guide to Remote Monitoring & Response with Robotics

Raptor Maps studies the performance and risk profiles of solar assets around the world in order to distill industry trends and to highlight opportunities for the rapidly growing solar industry. This report is a summary of Raptor Maps’ research. The 2025 Global Solar Report draws upon 193 GWdc of utility-scale and commercial and industrial (C&I) solar PV analysis, with 67 GWdc of analysis in 2024 alone. In this report, you will find research into site work automation and resource deployment, anomaly and defect trends, and performance benchmarks across different markets and asset classes.

Using drones to collect imagery data has gained widespread traction as an efficient, scalable, and safe method of collecting data, and in-house drone teams improve mobilization flexibility, better equip technicians, and reduce costs.

With the rapid growth in the deployment of solar, the industry has continued to see a rise in underperformance. Raptor Maps' analysis of more than 125GW has shown that equipment fault-related underperformance has increased by almost 180% since 2019, resulting in up to $4.6 billion of potential annual revenue loss for the industry in 2023. Our report details trends and drivers of such underperformance, derived from our industry-leading dataset. The 2025 Global Solar Report will be released in Feb. 2025, stay tuned!