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Lack of monitoring makes a company in the solar energy sector suffer a loss of 17 thousand reais
Who works with solar energy or have it at home, you need to worry about monitoring the generation of photovoltaic systems so as not to be at a loss. This is what Jessé Silva, one of the directors of Entec Solar, points out. This large company has more than 1.000 active solar panel projects in Brazil and has lost R$17 in savings due to the lack of constant monitoring of the networks. He also says that the photovoltaic system was working normally, but that the clock stopped and stopped registering 21 Kwh/month. Thus, due to the lack of ambiguous monitoring between the system and the concessionaire, the error was perceived too late and there was no chance of reversing the loss.
After the damage suffered by the company, Jessé advises that the consumer and the mills should be alert and look for monitoring systems to avoid scares at the end of the month with the lowest reduction of credits on the electricity bill. But after all, what is the purpose of the monitoring system? Promote greater efficiency of photovoltaic systems and enhance the generation of renewable energy.
Understand better how the monitoring of the photovoltaic system works with the following video
Thinking about helping other people to avoid losses, the company Entec Solar launched a monitoring application
With this loss, the company realized that a 24-hour monitoring system would be the ideal way to avoid further losses like this one, and then directed its efforts to create a new application with this function. Its main objective is to help with the checking and monitoring of the photovoltaic system and credits at the concessionaire.
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Therefore, the application performs constant analysis of the system, generating reports and metrics, as well as automatic alerts about malfunctions that may result in loss of credits. In this way, technology becomes an ally of the user, when analyzing metrics that he would not understand enough to identify problems in solar energy generation. The figure below shows the layout of the app created by Entec Solar's developers.
What are the benefits of the solar power generation monitoring service?
If you are still not convinced of the importance of monitoring in solar energy generation, here are some more benefits of this practice:
- 24 hour surveillance: The app monitors the operations of the photovoltaic system of interest in real time, bringing metrics on efficiency and operation. Visualization is intuitive and simple and allows for fast and accurate signaling of failures, so that they can be resolved in time to avoid losses. In addition, automatic alerts are issued when something is wrong, so that there is intervention.
- Constant assessment of the efficiency of the photovoltaic system: As we have seen, the application generates reports on the efficiency of solar energy generation by the panels, which shows the user the total credits already accumulated in the month, daily production level and hours of sunlight received. All this in the palm of your hand, on your smartphone, which makes monitoring very easy.
- Less chance of losses: The installation and maintenance of a solar energy generation system requires a large investment, to be reversed in the long term, that is, around 4 to 6 years. However, failures during power generation by the photovoltaic system can delay this return on investment. In this sense, the use of the application allows maintaining the efficiency of the panels to reach the return in the initially estimated time. In addition, it provides a technician to travel to the location that presents a problem within 48 hours of the alert, avoiding losses.
After all, what is the price of um monitoring service for photovoltaic system?
If you've come this far, you may be interested in purchasing this monitoring service for your business or home and want to know the price, right? The service is contracted through a monthly subscription, with a value between 55 and 250 reais per month, for smaller homes and businesses, and from 700 to 2500 reais per month, for larger plants, varying according to the project of each client.
Some companies may also provide types of benefits to customers, according to the contracted plan, which reduces the amount of investment required. At Entec Solar, for example, the customer has an annual cleaning of the panels as a courtesy, which would cost 700 reais if it were done separately. It is important to highlight that the maintenance of the photovoltaic system and its constant monitoring are essential for the generation of solar energy with high efficiency.
