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Green Energy: More renewables require more monitoring

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In the energy market, it is not only the expansion of smart metering systems that is currently being driven forward by the GNDEW - the expansion of renewable energies in private households or by energy suppliers and companies is also steadily increasing. However, a system that generates green energy is not inherently efficient. Monitoring is needed here to get the best out of the system.

The expansion of renewables is steadily increasing: The forecast is that around 80% of the energy produced will come from renewable energy sources by 2030. What sounds very good in principle for reducing CO2 emissions requires a large number of new processes in the background. In particular, the fact that anyone - whether a private household or a company - can be a producer means that checking and monitoring the systems is no longer just the responsibility of the energy suppliers, but of the operators themselves.

At the same time, it is predicted that the electrification of the heating and mobility sectors will lead to a sharp rise in overall consumption in Germany - particularly in the private sector. So when a private individual or a company has a PV system installed, they trust that a certain percentage of the rising consumption will be covered by their own generation. However, as with any technical device, faults can always occur.

Control over production

An energy monitoring tool is essential not only for monitoring consumption, but also for monitoring generation. In order to be able to see exactly what percentage of consumption can be covered by in-house generation, we offer a generation dashboard in our energy management software and in our Energy Cockpit, on which generation, feed-in and consumption can be monitored. It is also possible to use both solutions to analyse generation over different periods of time and identify correlations.

However, our energy management software goes one step further: with the alarm feature, it is now also possible to configure alarms for PV systems. Previously, alarms could only be created for consumption measuring points so that the user is notified when consumption exceeds a certain consumption threshold.

Automated monitoring for a large number of systems

Softwarescreen: PV-Alarm einstellen

This alarm function is now also possible with shortfalls and is therefore ideally suited for monitoring the function of a PV system: A minimum quantity of energy produced can be created for the feed-in or production measuring point for a specific period. If this minimum quantity is not produced or if the production value is 0, for example, you are automatically notified. Faults can thus be recognised quickly and measures can be taken.

This keeps everyone automatically informed as to whether the production values reach a certain level and whether the forecast quantity of consumption is covered by the company's own production.

Of course, this becomes particularly relevant when the number of systems increases. On a large production site, all systems can be monitored simultaneously thanks to the intelligent alarm rules and the efficiency of the renewable energy system is clearly ensured.

Interested? Please feel free to contact us!

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Katrin Schrebb
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