Energy
Run solar and remote energy sites without driving out to check
For operations and maintenance teams with solar fields, wind, small hydro and off-grid sites that are hours apart. See the weather and the Starlink link at a site, know your technicians can call for help, and keep one maintenance history for every asset.
The problem
The sites are far apart, and nothing at them reports back.
A long drive to find nothing wrong
Someone says a site looks off, so a technician drives out, looks around and drives back.
The link drops and nobody knows why
A Starlink dish installs software and reboots when it chooses. From the office, that looks the same as a fault.
One technician, a long way out
The person at the far site is often alone, sometimes beyond phone coverage, and the office only hears of trouble when they fail to call in.
A folder for each site
Inverter swaps, panel cleaning and inspections sit in separate spreadsheets, so nobody can say what was last done to a given combiner box.
What you can do with Powoflow now
Where to start
Records and work orders first. Hardware on request.
Bring your asset list
We bring in the spreadsheet you keep now, so each site opens with its assets in place. Starter and Professional include a starter template for renewable energy sites.
Plan the first inspection rounds
Add a maintenance plan for each round. None of this needs hardware.
Weather where the site is
A station on the site measures the wind your crew is standing in, not the area average. Every reading is kept, so the month is there when you plan the next visit or explain a missed one.
How weather monitoring worksWhat it does not do yet
- We do not forecast generation.
- The remote-site kit, with its solar panel, battery and LTE or Starlink link, is still being validated at our own test site. It is supplied on request and priced when you ask.
- Tell us which inverters, meters or charge controllers you run before you assume we read them. We will say plainly what connects.
- There is no automatic site-down alarm. A sensor that stops reporting raises an alarm, so you set one on a sensor at each site.
- Alarms show in Powoflow in your browser. On a phone they need the mobile app.
Tell us about the site you visit most
We will go through what a sensor can check there, and what still needs a person.