A PV site survey turns a project enquiry into usable field data: site notes, photos, first assumptions and, when needed, a horizon profile survey for shading analysis. The goal is to create a structured project record that supports quotation, PV assessment and the next planning steps.
A site survey should secure the information that will later be needed for technical assessment, quotation and project documentation.
Depending on the site, this can include:
Clear capture reduces follow-up questions and limits manual re-entry after the survey.
In real projects, information is often split across photos, notes, messages and office tools.
A structured survey helps teams:
The result is a project file that remains useful after the site work is complete.
After the site survey, the key elements should remain easy to find and reuse.
This makes it easier to restart the project in the office or hand it over to another team member.
The value of a site survey appears when the project continues after the field work.
The value comes from what remains usable after the visit.
PV installers get faster site qualification and cleaner quotation preparation.
Technical sales teams and solar engineering firms get better structured site inputs for downstream analysis and project handover.
In both cases, the purpose is to make the transition from field survey to office work more reliable.
After the site survey, several outputs can be useful depending on the project stage.
For PV installers and technical sales teams, the site survey often supports a more reliable quotation process.
Without structure, site information often has to be reconstructed later from incomplete notes.
Field observations, photos, notes, shading elements and first assumptions for next project steps.
It reduces information loss between site and office and makes project restart faster.
No. It prepares a clean first-level analysis before detailed engineering.
The site file, PV assessment base, PDF report and exports.
