Solar monitoring is a great way for both homeowners and business owners to understand their PV system’s overall performance. It also allows you to grasp how to improve your solar panel output and helps you understand how your savings are calculated.
What is solar monitoring?
A solar monitoring system functions through your PV system’s inverter (or inverters). They allow you to better understand your PV system’s performance including its solar electricity production, energy consumption, grid exports and imports as well as the battery charge and discharge power. At Energis, we offer a range of brands of inverters that come with a monitoring software setup. Advanced monitoring platforms, such as Solar Edge, offer enhanced PV performance monitoring including instant detection of any faults as well as alerts at the module, string and system level.
Why should your business get solar monitoring?
Here are multiple reasons why your business should incorporate a monitoring system into your PV installation. They include:
- Accessing your system’s overall technical and financial performance
- Displaying data for module, string and system levels
- Viewing your PV system’s production, individual-consumption and building/site consumption
- Prompt analysis and reporting tools at site and fleet levels
- Manage your fleet easily and conveniently from a computer, tablet or smartphone
- Receive instant alerts regarding system issues (panel or inverter performance drops)
- Access to real-time and historical system data with the ability to compare across sites
- Thoroughly understanding why your bill may be going up or down
- Improving the overall safety of your system
Let’s Break It Down
Here is an example of a business utilizing Solar Edge monitoring with a 32 kW system.
The import amount shows how much energy you import from the grid. When your home or business is using more energy than you are generating, you will import energy from the grid. The export amount shows how much energy you export from the grid. When you are using less energy than you are generating, you will export energy into the grid. In this example, a 25c per kWh price is used with a feed-in tariff amount of 12c. As you can see, this business has managed a zero-dollar bill (for that day) with a positive credit of $3.85c!
It’s time to start significantly reducing your company’s energy bills. With Energis, your business can maximise savings and positively contribute to the environment.
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