Tool 03 · PV Watcher

Every solar plant, seen and accounted for.

A panel that under-produces costs money in silence. PV Watcher keeps a continuous eye on every plant — measuring what each one should make against what it actually makes, and flagging the gap the moment it opens.

What PV Watcher does

Six ways a plant tells you it needs attention.

Monitoring is not a dashboard — it is the discipline of comparing every plant to its own expected behaviour, every hour.

Live yield vs. expected

Each plant carries a physical expectation — derived from its capacity, orientation and the irradiance it actually received. PV Watcher compares measured output to that model in real time, so a shortfall shows up as a number, not a hunch.

Soiling & fault detection

Dust, shading, a tripped string, a failed inverter — each leaves a distinct signature in the data. Gradual drift points to soiling; a sudden step points to hardware. PV Watcher separates the two so the right crew is sent.

Performance ratio

The performance ratio (PR) is the honest score: how much of the available sunlight a plant converts after all losses. Tracking PR over time turns a vague feeling of underperformance into a trend you can act on.

Alerting that earns its place

An alert is only useful if it means something. Thresholds are set against each plant's own baseline, so you hear about the meaningful losses — not every passing cloud — and a quiet inbox actually means a healthy fleet.

Fleet view

One plant is a chart; a hundred plants is a portfolio. The fleet view ranks every site by current health, surfaces the worst offenders first, and lets one operator hold an entire estate in a single glance.

Feeding the optimizer

Honestly: monitoring is also the foundation for dispatch. The same yield and availability signals that flag a fault also tell the BESS Optimizer how much generation it can actually count on — so storage decisions rest on what the plants are really doing, not on a nameplate.

From watching to acting

Watching the plant is step one. Acting on it is the optimizer.

PV Watcher tells you what each plant is producing and whether it is healthy. PV Radar checks the live status of a site for yourself, and the BESS Optimizer turns those generation signals into charge and discharge set-points on real hardware — vendor-agnostic, within grid and SLA limits.

Open PV Radar → See the BESS Optimizer →
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