With the increase in the use of solar energy, both in civil and industrial environments, the problem of maintenance of photovoltaic panels becomes extremely important. In this work attention is restricted to the problem of cleaning and safety conditions of the photo-voltaic (PV) panels and a brief review of main effects determining their efficiency reduction are reported. The discussion related to problems and unsafe functioning conditions concludes this paper.
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