Maintenance Program

To ensure the maximum reliability and sustainability of Bushlight renewable energy systems it is essential that an appropriate and regular repair and maintenance regime is in place.  Bushlight has facilitated the establishment of a three tier support structure for each of their systems to address this need, involving community residents, community resource agencies and qualified electrical contractors, each feeding up to the next. These are:

• Level One - the community:  Bushlight provides training to as many community residents as possible to assist them to operate and maintain their renewable energy system, to carry out basic troubleshooting and to encourage demand side management practices (energy conservation).
• Level Two - the resource agency:  This is provided by organisations that typically provide and maintain essential services in homeland communities, and involves the provision of regular basic maintenance of energy services.  Bushlight has assisted resource agencies to develop their technical support capacities through the provision of on-the-ground training courses in RE system maintenance.
• Level Three - technical service providers: This level of technical support is provided by appropriately qualified and experienced electrical contractors engaged under regional service contracts.  It includes the provision of comprehensive scheduled annual maintenance (delivered to Bushlight technical standards), as well as unscheduled maintenance to resolve issues not able to be resolved at Level One or Two.

Each system is fully covered for technical defects for a period of one year post-installation. This warranty also includes two scheduled maintenance runs by the system installers who carry out full system maintenance checks.  In the period after this first year of operation, Bushlight now has a maintenance program under which electrical contractors are engaged under regional service contracts to deliver Level three maintenance services for Bushlight systems. 

Please see the Bushlight Maintenance Service map (142kb) to see the technical service provider maintenance runs to Bushlight and "non-Bushlight" sites.

For further details on Bushlight's maintenance program, please contact the Bushlight Maintenance Coordinator at maintenance@bushlight.org.au.