SOLAR AND STORAGE · OWNERS AND O&M TEAMS
Improve solar and storage operations, from handover onward
Bring professional analysis into solar and storage operations. Identify issues worth acting on, prepare the work and check the outcome, using the systems and operating team already in place.
YOUR FIRST STEP
Choose an application for your assets or your service team
Industrial Platform · Industrial foundation · New Be Water release in development
AI Workforce · New product in development
Choose the solar or storage application your assets need, with the required data connections, calculations and support. Add AI Workforce where recurring preparation and follow-up would help. Ongoing operating records support decisions, investigations and checks on the results of maintenance or adjustments.
Start with the sites, the work to improve, existing systems and the O&M arrangement. A planned use or an operating issue is enough for an initial discussion.
For a first project, confirm the available product version, demonstration or evaluation materials, delivery scope, usage rights and timetable with us.
Have usable applications ready at handover
For a new site, select the applications and product scope while equipment interfaces and handover records can still be coordinated. Industrial Platform connects assets, operating conditions and calculations. AI Workforce adds recurring tasks and follow-up where selected. Existing SCADA, EMS, BMS and equipment controls provide their agreed functions.
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Receive the configured application
Asset and measurement definitions, authorized interfaces, calculation versions, outputs, permissions and operating instructions accompany the selected software and runtime.
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Check real site conditions
Use actual equipment and records to test normal, incomplete and stale inputs. Solar checks use comparable weather and equipment conditions; storage checks use instructions, state and limits. The people taking over must be able to explain the results and know who should handle exceptions.
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Make operating responsibilities clear
Name the owner, O&M provider, equipment support and product-support contacts. Agree who maintains connections and methods after construction, and who takes site action.
For asset owners: decide where intervention is worthwhile
Compare site performance under relevant weather, equipment and operating conditions. Solar reviews can consider unexplained output gaps, lost energy or availability where suitable records and definitions exist. The selected application returns analysis to the asset-management workflow for the people authorized to decide what merits investigation.
To judge an intervention’s value, bring time-based generation or energy records, applicable prices and contract terms, and maintenance, downtime and product-support costs into the review. Compare operating records after action for recovery or recurrence. The illustrated power readings alone do not establish recovered energy, settled revenue or a financial return.
For O&M teams: carry the service from analysis to review
An O&M provider may select Industrial Platform or specialist applications for the sites it serves and integrate results into its work-order or monitoring platform. AI Workforce is an additional choice for recurring preparation and follow-up. An asset owner may separately select capabilities for asset decisions; purchasing software does not itself grant access to the other party’s data.
Qualified site teams carry out the assigned observations and procedures. Specialists assess unfamiliar conditions or conflicting evidence where that support is arranged. Align product support, intervention authority and field work with the existing O&M contract.
Follow an exception from detection to review
This simulated solar example shows how operating records, a reference calculation and a maintenance task fit together. It explains the workflow and comparison method; the example values are not a customer-performance claim.
Explore the illustrated workflow
Solar and storage require different professional methods
Solar performance analysis needs comparable weather and equipment conditions. Storage review instead checks authorized instructions, battery state, reserves, equipment limits and actual execution. These are different methods; retain the existing controls and select the relevant model or application.
| Task | What needs to be assessed |
|---|---|
| Solar operations | Distinguish actionable issues under comparable weather, temperature, curtailment and equipment conditions, then check recovery and recurrence after maintenance. |
| Storage operations | Check authorized instructions, SOC, reserves, limits and execution. Reduced output can be consistent with a valid limit. The example explains those checks; it does not demonstrate a released dispatch optimizer or market-trading strategy. |
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Keep the existing operation as the starting point
Keep useful monitoring, reporting, control and work-order systems in place. Identify where a comparison, diagnosis or handover is difficult today, then return the application’s results to the team and system that will use them.
Check the data and assign responsibility for follow-up
Check equipment and interface versions, asset mappings, units, time and result destinations. Solar and storage tasks need their own applicable methods and operating conditions; verify them using representative records and incomplete-input cases.
Name who reviews results, authorizes interventions, performs site work and accepts unresolved issues. Obtain access from the parties entitled to authorize each data source and intended use. Where the CMMS holds the work order, retain that record and link the agreed analysis and follow-up to it. Cross-site use requires authorization for the relevant data and purpose.
A professional foundation, applied to the selected task
Team members’ historical industrial and steel-energy projects provide experience in operating data, energy calculations and supply–demand coordination. Solar performance and storage review need their own methods, interfaces and site checks. The solar and storage examples on this site are illustrative workflows, not customer-performance evidence or proof of a storage optimizer.
Align purchasing with the work and the beneficiary
An asset owner and an O&M provider may buy capabilities for different work. Identify the purchaser, data-rights holders, parties authorized to use results, site-action responsibilities and intended beneficiary for the selected scope. These roles need not belong to one organization.
Agree licenses, data mappings and configuration, what each party may see, and what may be exported or handed over when the arrangement ends. Software purchase does not require another party to disclose proprietary methods or its complete service records.
Alongside the existing O&M contract, agree KPI definitions, permitted data, access and the records used for review. Those records provide evidence for the parties’ checks; the product does not arbitrate their commercial disputes. Record versions, review rights and any unresolved differences follow the project agreement.
Continuing use, fees and support
Ongoing software use can process new records for repeated performance, condition and maintenance reviews. Define which product updates, connection maintenance and professional-method support are included, for which sites and period. The owner and O&M provider can keep agreed decisions and follow-up connected to the site’s records.
Agree initial fees for the selected applications or products and the mapping, integration, acceptance and product-use training included in scope. Ongoing terms define software rights and their duration, covered sites and users, runtime or hosting, updates and support. Specialist model changes and field maintenance are separately scoped with their providers. Any outcome-based payment needs its own agreed measures, authorized evidence and commercial terms.
Discuss a new project or an operating issue
Tell us whether you are preparing handover, managing an asset or providing O&M. We can then discuss the relevant applications, product combination and delivery responsibilities.
Explore the data and calculation mechanism
Investigate a generation shortfall, arrange maintenance and check the result
Simulated workflow: recommend, then approve. The operating mode is configured for the task.
Under comparable conditions around 800W/m², output recovers from 76 to 96kW after maintenance, still 4% below the 100kW reference. Continue reviewing matched conditions.
Generation difference under matched irradiance
kWMatch before and after maintenance by irradiance; times are from the before record.
Example reference: 100kW at 800W/m²; similar temperature
Exclude curtailment and outages before checking maintenance history
Match weather records from the same siteSite A; five-minute windows; correct a three-second offset✓
Calculate reference output at matched irradiance12:00 reference 100kW, recorded 76kW, deviation −24%✓
Check curtailment and maintenance recordsNo curtailment event in the example; read equipment history✓
Examine the output difference for inverter INV-07
AI drafts; the authorized reviewer confirms before action.
Field check finds soiling; treat under the maintenance procedure and record
Example feedback recordedAfter maintenance, this example records 96kW near the same 800W/m² irradiance, still 4% below the 100kW reference. Retain weather and temperature conditions and continue observing.
Space plays/pauses; arrow keys seek.Reduced motion is on. Explore the complete work with the timeline.
Read all records, calculations and review notes
Match inverter, weather and maintenance records to the same equipment and time window. Calculate a reference under comparable conditions, then have the authorized maintenance lead approve the field check. Compare the results under the same conditions so weather changes are not mistaken for maintenance effects.
| Time | kW | W/m² | Ref. kW |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:45 | 57 | 600 | 75 |
| 11:50 | 67 | 700 | 87.5 |
| 11:55 | 72 | 760 | 95 |
| 12:00 | 76 | 800 | 100 |
| 12:05 | 79 | 820 | 102.5 |
| 12:10 | 76 | 800 | 100 |
Decision and result
100 kW × 800 / 800 = 100 kW
Example reference: 100kW at 800W/m²; similar temperature
Exclude curtailment and outages before checking maintenance history
Follow-up records
After maintenance, this example records 96kW near the same 800W/m² irradiance, still 4% below the 100kW reference. Retain weather and temperature conditions and continue observing.
Maintenance recorded; continue output review