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Document NamePREPARED BY: Your Name, Your TitleDATE: 6TH MARCH 2015
Solar Analytics - Rooftop PV energy analytics
and fault diagnosis
Jonathon DoreHead of Data AnalyticsSolar Analytics
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Outline
• About Solar Analytics• Faults and case studies• Research projects
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Outline
• About Solar Analytics• Faults and case studies• Research projects
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Our Purpose
To maximise the value customers
receive from their solar energy system
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Coal is not good for humanity …
Pollutes atmosphere
Degrades land
Expensive
Doctors report that “coal is a health hazard from start to finish”
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… solar energy is the saviour …
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CheaperSimplerCleaner
... distributed solar is already colonising our homes …
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…but there’s a problem
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19% CAGR but industry has focussed on large scale monitoring
Source: GTM research, 2013
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Utility Commercial Residential
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Leading monitoring providers by revenue Global monitoring penetration
Company FocusSkytron Energy UtilityInAccess UtilityMeteoControl Utility/CommercialFirstSolar UtilityGreenPowerSolarLog
UtilityUtility/Commercial
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Features Residential Commercial Utility
Production Data
Performance Analysis
Fault Diagnosis
Current residential monitoring products are inadequate
Available with Solar AnalyticsReadily available
Not available
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Solar Analytics is already providing the solution
Works with any hardware …. or even none
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Providing useful information
How to fix your system
When to install batteries
How to save energy
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Providing detailed information
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Distributed via solar retailers
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Current Status: 506 Monitored Sites
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People• Stefan Jarnason, Co-founder and Managing Director
• Valantis Vais, Co-founder and Board Member
• Dr Renate Egan, Co-founder and Commercial Director
• Dr John Laird, Co-founder and Software Development Manager
• Dr Jonathon Dore, Head of Data Strategy & Analytics
+ 10 (software dev, design, sales, service, ops & analysis)
+ Co-op
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History
Envais Solar (Valantis)
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Outline
• About Solar Analytics• Faults and case studies• Research projects
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Breakdown of PV system failure
• 26% systems underperforming
• 12.1% annual fault rate
Solar Analytics Data
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Breakdown of PV system underperformance
Performance lessons from the real world, SunWiz 2012
• Earth leakage
• Soiling
• DC or AC Isolator
• Wiring or connectors
• Intermittent inverter issue
• Microcracks
• Hot spot
• Potential Induced Degradation
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Case Study 1
• 10kW system in Tasmania
• 7.5kW @ 32° NW and 2.5 kW @ 122 ° SW
Intermittent string loss
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Case Study 2
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Case Study 3
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Outline
• About Solar Analytics• Faults and case studies• Research projects
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Research Projects
• Load disaggregation (Lachlan McDermid, UNSW)
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Research Projects
• PV generation forecasting (Johnathan Lee & Rachel Oh, UNSW)
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Research Projects
• PV generation forecasting (Bibek Joshi, UNSW)• Household consumption forecasting
(Baran Yildiz, UNSW)
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Proposed Project
• Hardware development• Home energy management• Battery monitoring and optimisation
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Future Projects
• ARC Linkage?• Solar Hot Water?• Machine Learning?• Grid Management?
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Our Purpose
To maximise the value customers
receive from their solar energy system