The best kind of project management relieves the stress of project planners and owners alike. Just take a look at our Top Products: Site assessment offerings help with production measurements and forecasting, software assists with making sales and streamlining design and monitoring programs allow individuals to have 24/7 surveillance of their solar projects. Using these Top Products is key to understanding how to keep your plant performing and profitable.
Monitoring * Site Assessment & Measurment * Software
MONITORING
ALSOENERGY: SCADA-plus-monitoring site controller
AlsoEnergy offers a fully integrated SCADA-plus-solar monitoring solution with its own site controller. Control variables include power curtailment, ramp rate and power factor. Remotely access SCADA controls in the AlsoEnergy software interface, and get service and support for the full system from a single source provider.
EGAUGE SYSTEMS: 3 Series
The eGauge energy meter displays real-time system data, utility feeds and electricity consumption of sub-panels, circuits and equipment. The hardware features a 30-year data-logger, built-in web server and ports for 12 current transformers. Communication options include Ethernet, PLC, Wi-Fi, and cellular.
ENPHASE ENERGY: Envoy-S
The Envoy-S gateway enables more cost-effective, reliable solar installations and energy storage and provides solar production data, energy consumption data and remote maintenance. Integrated Wi-Fi, revenue-grade metering and an optional cellular modem help installers standardize on installations, while bi-directional communication makes it fully adaptable to future utility requirements.
LOCUS ENERGY: PVIQ Excel Datalink
PVIQ Excel Datalink provides direct access to performance data within Excel spreadsheets. The software allows users to automate the analysis and presentation of key performance data. By making data queries directly from an Excel spreadsheet workbook, fleet owners and operators can dramatically reduce the time required to prepare performance reports.
SKYTRON ENERGY: PVGuard supervision platform
PVGuard allows software access all available working memory. The resulting performance boost will make PVGuard substantially more responsive and simplify the analysis of large data volumes. PVGuard Local allows all the functionality of PVGuard to be used when there is only a sporadic Internet connection or even none at all.
SOLAR-LOG: Solar-Log & GE Meter
Solar-Log & GE Meter is a cellular-based, revenue-grade, solar PV monitoring device that is simple to install and use. Its compact design includes Solar-Log technology and GE’s I-210+ residential meter. Options include consumption monitoring, inverter direct, power management and weather station. Includes five years of cellular data plan and Solar-Log WEB monitoring.
SUNVERGE ENERGY: Sunverge solar integration system
This intelligent, fully integrated energy storage system maximizes the value of solar PV, lowers costs, increases energy reliability and accelerates the adoption and integration of distributed renewable energy. Sunverge has more than 5 MWh of distributed storage under management and has provided more than 9,600 hours of backup power to date.
TRIMARK ASSOCIATES: T1-S Vantage
Gain ultimate power over PV resources with this monitoring and control solution. T1-S Vantage presents real-time status from revenue meters, MET stations, PV inverters and trackers. Users can view and acknowledge alarms and produce resource reports via an app in the palm of the hand or on your desktop browser.
SITE ASSESSMENT & MEASUREMENT
CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC: Solar1000-SCE
Campbell Scientific’s Solar1000-SCE solar monitoring station meets CAISO PIRP standards and is compatible with SCE Exhibit T specifications. Station design, fabrication, pre-shipment test and an installation guide helps minimize installation errors and deployment time. Technical support from Campbell’s application engineers is included (no additional charge) for the life of the system.
ITRON: Itron Total Solar
Itron Total Solar is a complete offering that combines production measurement, asset monitoring, sensing applications and forecasting in a managed services offering for solar generation. Itron’s experts run, manage and maintain the solar offering, including revenue-grade solar meters. The service provides an accurate, reliable way to measure and monitor solar production.
KIPP & ZONEN: SMP10 smart pyranometer
The SMP10 is a secondary standard smart pyranometer that requires low maintenance. It has a Modbus interface, amplified analogue output, improved response time and temperature corrected measurement data. Thanks to the identical sensitivity and connections of every SMP10, exchanging instruments for recalibration is easy.
RENEWABLE NRG SYSTEMS: SymphoniePRO data logger
Many solar resource assessment (SRA) practitioners have relied upon general purpose measurement equipment–the problem being this complex equipment necessitates highly trained operators. For project developers seeking repeatable, finance-grade SRA campaigns on a global scale, the SymphoniePRO purpose-built data logger combines the latest performance requirements with unmatched ease of use.
SOCOMEC: Sunsys PCS2 UL
Sunsys PCS2 is the solution for behind-the-meter energy storage, helping reduce peak consumption and maximize PV energy self-consumption. Sunsys also manages the intermittence of renewable energy production within PV plants and provides grid support that meets the challenge of demand-response energy balance.
VAISALA: Operational optimization services for PV projects
Vaisala services can help evaluate operational projects and identify areas for improvement. Services to optimize project performance are available for residential portfolios to utility-scale projects. Vaisala provides one-time analysis as well as ongoing reconciliation services that are always weather adjusted for the highest accuracy.
SOFTWARE
3MEGAWATT: BluePoint
3megawatt’s BluePoint web-based software offers a complete set of tools for solar portfolio management all in one platform. The BluePoint platform helps solar asset owners and operators to manage their solar portfolios more effectively.
AURORA SOLAR: Aurora
Aurora is a one-stop software platform for solar sales and design. Its integrated process takes users from address to completed system design and sales proposal within minutes. With remote shading analysis, NEC validation, beautiful visuals and more, Aurora brings the state of the art to solar professionals.
EAGLEVIEW TECHNOLOGIES: Measurement-grade data and imagery
EagleView Technologies offers Pictometry Intelligent Images and analytical tools for 360° views of every property. After closing the sale, Solar Roof Reports deliver detailed measurements and CAD files of the roof for precise solar design and installation.
ENACT SYSTEMS: Solar business automation software
The ENACT Systems software platform provides complete business process automation for solar developers, installers and investors. Users can lower costs for customer acquisition, operations and financing to enable incremental revenue growth. Services include energy analytics, CRM, sales proposals, document management, financing options for customers as well as working capital installers.
Energy Toolbase is an industry leading software platform for modeling and proposing solar PV and energy storage projects. The SaaS product is used by hundreds of the leading developers nationwide to accurately, objectively and transparently analyze the economics of their projects.
FOLSOM LABS: HelioScope
HelioScope helps solar installers design and sell solar arrays more effectively by putting easy and powerful software tools into the hands of everyone in the organization. By empowering the front-line sales team to collaborate with the customer directly, installers achieve shorter sales cycles and higher close rates.
GELI: ESyst
Geli’s free design tool analyzes electricity-use data to size energy storage systems, providing maximum savings and attractive investor returns. Geli ESyst customizes the system and connects users directly with equipment suppliers to order components enabled by the Geli EOS (Energy Operating System).
GEOCF: Smart Power Maps
Smart Power Maps is an all-in-one web-based software platform designed for utility-scale solar that streamlines the entire process of project siting, evaluation and development, enabling users to comprehensively evaluate and manage large-scale solar projects and investments at any stage.
INTERPLAY LEARNING: Interplay Solar
Interplay Solar is a complete online solar training solution that delivers digital training for on-the-job knowledge. Installers amplify their training by providing employees access to an engaging learning portal featuring 3D simulations. The content library includes compelling curriculum for almost every employee at the company from new installers to sales.
The platform automates all electrical design and module layout and features integrated production modeling with an interface to NREL’s System Advisor Model. It enables comparison across multiple design iterations and exports a bill of materials and electric calculations for easy review. PVComplete integrates with AutoCAD and available as an application or a bundled “solar CAD” solution.
SolarNexus combines CRM, design and sales proposals and project management functionality into a single software platform for independent solar sales and installation companies. Unifying processes and information into a single software application radically simplifies business operations and enables profitable managing and scaling solar business.
VELOCIFY PULSE AND LEADMANAGER
Velocify, a sales acceleration platform, helps more than 1,500 sales teams and many top solar companies sell more by bringing speed and control to the entire sales process. Velocify helps solar sales professionals prospect with more precision, quickly respond to new leads and follow a proven sales workflow to find and convert more leads.