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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. solar product spotlight: software 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 Trimark Associates, Inc. Product: SCADA Application: Utility-scale PV, C&I, DAS Description: Trimark’s utility-scale SCADA system collects real-time data from inverters, trackers, meters, weather stations, and substation equipment. Operators can easily monitor and control performance for individual devices, a site, or an entire portfolio from intuitive Trimark’s Vantage User Interface. Users can customize thresholds, alarms, dashboards, and reports to evaluate PV performance and power generation. The system’s integrated advanced analytics include machine learning and deep learning algorithms to uncover operational issues. Real-time data, weather information, and historical patterns are analyzed to enable energy prediction and early detection of faulty or underperforming devices. www.trimarkassoc.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 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 GROUND SCREWS? REFUSAL HOLES? HELICAL ANCHORS? Rock Drilling Attachments Get the Job Done. wordrockdrills.com | 1.336.584.6700 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 North American Clean Energy 31