The AlsoEnergy Resource Library

Join AlsoEnergy Vice President of Product Management Mesa Scharf and Training Manager Trey Newkerk for an introduction to the next generation of the PowerTrack Platform. PowerTrack Platform 3.0 retains the look and feel of PowerTrack Web, but with an improved user experience, expanded features, and enhanced performance.

This one hour web event will help you understand how owners can evolve their operational models to optimize energy harvests in environments where maximum power point tracking would exceed limitations, and where curtailments can create unexpected yield shortfalls. This webinar includes lab simulation results for AlsoEnergy’s Dynamic Energy Harvest Optimization™ plant control algorithms, quantifying the benefits of our advanced approach to SCADA system design.

The Rule Tool provides comprehensive on-demand reports to evaluate every aspect of system health, from network communications and configurations to data and performance validation. The Rule Tool delivers complete system testing during the commissioning process, and may be used to troubleshoot data issues over the lifetime of the system.

AlsoEnergy is an industry leader for advanced PV performance modeling, enabling accurate actual vs. expected calculations. AlsoEnergy modeling accounts for factors such as seasonal irradiance variations, panel tilt and azimuth, expected performance for panels and inverters, and even data from tracker systems.

The CMMS Module in PowerTrack delivers seamless integration with any leading CMMS software. This creates a solution with one comprehensive view of all job ticket data, and the ability to create job tickets directly from PowerTrack alarms. The mobile application allows field technicians to coordinate work with staff in the office or operations center.

PowerTrack offers users a wide range of report templates for common reporting needs. But every client will need to build custom reports from time to time; PowerTrack offers several options to build your own custom reports, including Custom Excel Report Templates to automate reports based on your Excel spreadsheets.

Inverter Variance Reports compare the output among all individual inverters with the total output of the group. This report is ideal to identify inverters that may be experiencing diminishing productivity over time.

Production Hierarchy Views allow users to quickly and easily drill down through site architecture to locate underperforming strings and inverters. This feature shows real-time production values behind the meter, with the ability to scale between zone, string, and device level data.

Remote Capacity Tests in PowerTrack follow the Active Standard ASTM E2848 protocol. PowerTrack performs data filtering, normalization and multiple regressions to calculate an accurate, unbiased assessment of system generation capacity as a function of available irradiance.

Easily identify recurrent device failures and other production issues with the Site Alert Timeline in PowerTrack. The newly-launched timeline view gives you a great visualization of past device alerts & their duration and shows you additional details when you hover over them.

The Soiling Loss Algorithm in PowerTrack is an effective way to detect and quantify production losses due to soiling without the need for specialized sensors on site. The Soiling Loss Algorithm utilizes pattern matching to identify gradual losses over time due to soiling.

PowerTrack enables a range of financial analytics for users, including financial displays, reports, and invoices. These features support all major global currencies, and multiple rates to reflect higher energy values during peak usage hours. See expected and actual revenue side-by-side with production data, and track revenue loss estimates associated with downtime and performance impact events.

Let CPS and AlsoEnergy simplify this complex and ever-changing topic to give you a head start on implementation. We will distill the key requirements of the Communications Protocols and Advanced Functions defined in Rule 21 Phase 2 & 3 into actionable plans for solar developers, contractors and engineers.

AlsoEnergy’s Lester Hoffman, Director of Support and Kevin Boxer, EIT, Field Engineering Manager, recently discuss how you will benefit from our expanded Global Support and Services organization.