Overview
About Solar Accelerators
Solar Accelerators provides a package of solar-specific analytics, visualizations, and insights to improve operations and maintenance strategies. It incorporates subject matter expertise and best practices from Essentials engineers and operators.
Value Opportunity:
- Reduce Downtime:
- Intuitive asset, site, and fleet visualizations guide operators through their daily workflow.
- Automated alerts inform maintenance teams of active or expected faults and provide recommended actions that prevent or guide repair of component and subcomponent failures.
- Early detection of deteriorating asset condition can not only result in less expensive repairs but can also allow for scheduled maintenance at times that are less likely to affect generation (such as outside of daylight hours).
- Improve Yield:
- Analytics performed on digital twins of assets in real time identify deviations from expected KPIs at any operating point and environmental condition.
- Machine-learning-based signature detection algorithms automatically quantify and categorize each cause of production loss, providing insight to enable better maintenance strategies.
- By detecting issues early and proactively, a health monitoring solution can reduce downtime and increase system generation, thus resulting in higher revenue and return on investment.
- Increase Efficiency:
- With tools for early and automated detection of performance degradation, operators can compare competing maintenance needs, investigate the evidence, and determine a prioritized course of action before sending resources into the field. This helps reduce trips to the field and focus on the issues impacting the largest megawatts (MW), which results in increased staff productivity.
- For larger sites or fleets, better use of time between subject matter experts and field technicians may result in a different workforce composition over time, saving cost and focusing your SME efforts on the events that add the most value.
- Integrated alerts, inspections, and field work orders with CMMS systems ensure that operators accurately prioritize and document their use of field technician’s time in one system of record.
Access the Solar Accelerators Home Page
The Solar Accelerators home page helps you monitor the health of a site by providing you high-level information about the blocks and inverters in the site.
Procedure
In the Applications menu, select .
The Solar Accelerators home page appears, which contains the following sections:
In addition, the top menu contains the option to change the site, along with some basic information about the selected site (such as the site coordinates, AC and DC capacity, and so on).
- The OVERVIEW section: Contains high-level information of all the blocks and inverters in a site, highlighting the ones that need immediate action, thus helping you monitor the health of the site.
- The INVERTERS section: Contains a list of inverters in the site, along with values of their KPIs.
In addition, the top menu contains the option to change the site, along with some basic information about the selected site (such as the site coordinates, AC and DC capacity, and so on).