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solar spotlight: performance monitoring software
Performance Monitoring Software
Solar performance monitoring systems are necessary to verify the components within a solar system are performing and producing the energy they should. Here, we highlight some of the performance monitoring systems available on the market today.
LevelTen
Product: LevelTen Performance Monitoring
Application: Commercial, industrial, utility- scale
Description: LevelTen Performance Monitoring includes a dashboard of comprehensive performance metrics including environmental data, economic data, and energy production data. In addition to providing a historical look at key performance metrics, Performance Monitoring is directly connected to the latest forward market curves, which means managers can see how a PPA is expected to perform for any given metric. This enables all internal stakeholders to take action (if needed) to reach their goals and manage their budgets. If a corporation has more than one PPA on the books, Performance Monitoring will compile data from all of the PPAs into a single portfolio view. This enables management to see how the corporation’s overall portfolio of investments is performing, and how it could be improved with future investments.
www.leveltenenergy.com
Cachelan
Product: SolarVu Monitoring Portal
Application: Commercial, utility, residential portfolios, energy storage, SCADA
Description: Cachelan is a solar monitoring solutions company that provides SCADA and DAS systems to help with O&M and Asset Management of solar and storage portfolios via their SolarVu platform. Manage portfolios of residential, commercial/industrial, and utility sized projects in one place. Receive high fidelity alerts of equipment issues and connect weather sensors, meters, site cameras. Easily compare inverter and string level performance. Cachelan interfaces with all major inverter
and equipment manufacturers, and design to minimize their customer’s cost.
www.cachelan.com
naak, Inc.
Product: carbonTRACK cT200i Gateway
Application: Residential, commercial, industrial, grid services
Description: The cT200i Gateway is an energy management and IoT hub that enables residential and commercial energy users to monitor, control, automate, and transact energy. A differentiator for this product manufactured by carbonTRACK, is its ability to control behind the meter loads and integrate with SunSpec certified battery storage systems, delivering an end-to-end energy management system. Comes equipped with 3 built-in relays for hard wired circuit level control, and a ZigBee Home Automation chip for pairing with and controlling smart thermostats, smart plugs, and other smart appliances. Reliable cloud connectivity is established with onboard CAT M1 cellular and Wi-Fi.
www.naak.io
McHale & Associates, Inc. Product: McHale Performance Suites
Application: Commercial
Description: McHale offers their proprietary
Excel Add-In package to add functionality
to Excel, specific to performance testing
and thermodynamic calculations. McHale Performance Suites is a complete function package designed to provide the foundational engineering calculations and meet the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) requirements for performance testing, providing results that are accurate, defensible, and minimize the risk of computational blunders. The defensibility of the calculations and test results is a core competency involved in multiple party performance testing. The functions are time- tested and verified in every performance and acceptance test that McHale performs.
www.mchale.com
Trimark Associates, Inc. Product: Vantage
Application: Utility-scale PV monitoring, C&I, DAS
Description: Trimark Vantage is a scalable, flexible visualization tool that helps users determine if their PV sites are performing as expected. Vantage provides real-time SCADA information from numerous devices, including inverters, weather stations, meters, and more. Intuitive, customizable dashboards can display the performance of a single device, or an entire site.
www.trimarkassoc.com
PVH - PV Hardware Product: PV Performance Control SCADA
Application: Utility-scale
Description: PV Performance Control is
PVH's advanced SCADA solution to monitor, control, analyze, and maintain solar PV plants. PVPC performs real-time data acquisition of plant field devices such as inverters, trackers, weather stations, strings or the substation,
and stores the information either in a local central server or in the cloud. Likewise, it allows integration with third parties such as the country’s electricity grid operator, the SCADA of the substation or the customer’s remote- control center. It launches SCADA clients locally or remotely, from anywhere and at any time. Accredited to IEC 61724-1.
www.pvhardware.com
Solar Data Pros, Inc. Product: Know True-Up
Application: Utility solar
Description: Know True-Up allows utility customers who also have solar to see how their energy usage habits and solar energy production combine to impact their utility charges. The software program also has a solar production monitoring component, which notifies the Know True-Up monitoring team when a solar system has not pushed any power to the grid within a 24-hour period. Utility customers are notified when a potential solar production problem is detected.
www.solarnegotiators.com
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